“Stop allowing your mind to be a slave, to be jerked about by selfish impulses, to kick against fate and the present, and to mistrust the future.”.But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own-not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil. “When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly.You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.Realize this, and you will find strength. You have power over your mind-not outside events.Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. Detach from the things that are beyond your control and focus on your own will and perception.Serenity and ethical certainty come from within.Stoicism is as relevant today as it was when it was first recorded.
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