“Remember how long you've been putting this off, how many extensions the gods gave you, and you didn't use them. At some point you have to recognize what world it is that you belong to; what power rules it and from what source you spring; that there is a limit to the time assigned to you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and will never return.”

By Marcus Aurelius

From: The Stoic
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I looked at myself in the mirror this morning and thought,

“Self, you have never looked more like crazy mode Jack Nicholson in The Shining.”

My second conscious thought of the day?

“Give me the fucking bat, Wendy…”

This is what listening to fireworks allllllllll night long does to a person.

#DailyAffirmations #GoodMorning #QuitYourDamnFireworks #QuitYourBullshit

#Coffee #DailyAffirmations #Garden #FreshAir #WellbeingWednesday coffee in the garden, surrounded by flowers and bees, it might just reset my head for the day

“Do not try to seem wise to others. If you want to live a wise life, live it on your own terms and in your own eyes.”

By Epictetus

From: The Stoic
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“Beyond all things is the sea”

By Lucius Annaeus Seneca

From: The Stoic
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“It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance”

By Epictetus

From: The Stoic
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“Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat.”

By Epictetus

From: The Stoic
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“How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life”

By Marcus Aurelius

From: The Stoic
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“How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.”

By Marcus Aurelius

From: The Stoic
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“How soon will time cover all things.”

By Marcus Aurelius

From: The Stoic
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“And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is to discern a connection even among things separated by vast distances.”

By Marcus Aurelius

From: The Stoic
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“While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.”

By Lucius Annaeus Seneca

From: The Stoic
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“Only the educated are free.”

By Epictetus

From: The Stoic
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“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

By Marcus Aurelius

From: The Stoic
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“They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.”

By Lucius Annaeus Seneca

From: The Stoic
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“Don't just say you have read books.

Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person.

Books are the training weights of the mind.

They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”

By Epictetus
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From: The Stoic

“A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.”

By Marcus Aurelius

From: The Stoic
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“Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see.”

By Marcus Aurelius

From: The Stoic
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“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”

By Marcus Aurelius

From: The Stoic
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“Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”

By Epictetus

From: The Stoic
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