If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. It is in your power to erase this judgment about it. If anything in your own nature gives you pain, you are who hinders you from correcting your opinion.

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There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

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Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?

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Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them.

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What we do in life ripples in eternity.

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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

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The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

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Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.

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