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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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

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Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.

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When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.

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Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.

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Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.

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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

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Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus.

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