When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.

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Give yourself a gift: the present moment.

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Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

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Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.

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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

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Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?

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It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

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You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.

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What we do in life ripples in eternity.

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