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“It isn’t the events themselves that disturb people, but only their judgements about them.” —Epictetus
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."
—Marcus Aurelius
“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
—Seneca
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
—Epictetus
“Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.”
—Epictetus
Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember these hardships.
Virgil (via marcusalldaylius)