"Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius
Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.
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“Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements.”
“It's normal to feel pain in your hands and feet, if you're using your feet as feet and your hands as hands. And for a human being to feel stress is normal - if he's living a normal life. And if it's normal, how can it be bad?”
“A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.”
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“Savor more; fix less. Laugh more; cry less. Anticipate positively more; anticipate negatively less. Just practice that and watch what happens.”
“The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.”
“What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.”
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“Snow endures but for a season, and joy comes with the morning.”
“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.”
“Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.”