Disturbance comes only from within—from our own perceptions.
~ Marcus Aurelius

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People try to get away from it all—to the country, to the beach, to the mountains. You always wish that you could too. Which is idiotic: you can get away from it anytime you like. By going within. Nowhere you can go is more peaceful—more free of interruptions—than your own soul.
~ Marcus Aurelius

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
~ Marcus Aurelius

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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
~ Marcus Aurelius

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Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man’s life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.
~ Marcus Aurelius

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But that which is useful is the better.
~ Marcus Aurelius

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For we carry our fate with us — and it carries us.
~ Marcus Aurelius

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