"Reject your sense of injury, and the..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius
Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.
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“Look deeply. Don't miss the inherent quality and value of everything.”
“Even while a thing is in the act of coming into existence, some part of it has already ceased to be.”
“All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried.”
More on Perception
“People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.”
“We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of something subtle.”
“and then he could not see her come into a room without a sense of the flowing of robes, of the flowering of blossoms, of the purple waves of the sea, of all things that are lovely and mutable on the surface but still and passionate in their heart.”
More on Emotion
“Her face was working and twitching with passion, but his looked up at the sky, still quiet, neither angry nor afraid, but a little sad.”
“I never saw my mother happy with me and proud of me for doing something: She only knew me as being a wild kid running the streets, coming home with new clothes that she knew I didn't pay for. I never got a chance to talk to her or know about her. Professionally, it has no effect, but it's crushing emotionally and personally.”
“There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow”