“You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.8

“But neither a bull nor a noble-spirited man comes to be what he is all at once; he must undertake hard winter training and prepare himself, not propel himself rashly into what is not appropriate to him.”

— Epictetus

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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.” —Steve Jobs #TLDR #SteveJobs #CoffeeChain #GM #LifeIsGood

“Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. . . . The skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Life is no ‘brief candle’ for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” — Thomas Campbell

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“There’s no use trying,” Alice said. “One can’t believe impossible things.”

“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

— Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1871)

The Man in the Arena

—from Theodore Roosevelt’s “Citizenship in a Republic” (1910)

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

‘Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.’ – Marcus Aurelius

"You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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