Marcus Aurelius: If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing…
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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- Your mentality determines your functionality.
- Everything is what you think everything is. So to make anything better, you have to think better about everything.
- The most important thing you will ever control is the only thing you can control, your attitude.
- LeaderTip of the Day #30: The most important thing about any thing is how you think about everything. Today put any thing in the context of everything!
- I endeavor to take things as they come with cheerfulness, and when I cannot get a dinner to suit my taste, I endeavor to get a taste to suit my dinner.
- It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.