Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.
Marcus AureliusIf you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.
Marcus AureliusPast and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized.
Marcus AureliusBecause your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
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