Peeps by @MarcusA
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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Replying to @Vera (0xb5d7d1ea4a8f29a658006e3f3915040577136d7b)
Why are they special though? Like I don’t get the user mechanic.
They are special only because of their rarity. Receiving one means your post was valued more than any other by someone that day.
Treat whatever happens as wholly natural; not novel or hard to deal with; but familiar and easily handled.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. -Seneca
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. -Seneca
The first step: Don’t be anxious. Nature controls it all.
Would human extinction be a tragedy?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/opinion/human-extinction-climate-change.html
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden. -Seneca
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. -Hericlitus
If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.
-Epictetus
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. -Epictetus
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. -Epictetus
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As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. -Seneca
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. -Seneca
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. -Seneca
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. -Seneca
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Replying to @franklin (0x04a5f69437120514d9c4e7a0757898960b0eab46)
Happy Thanksgiving weekend everyone. Watercolor from this past July, thankful to be able to do what I do and to be supported for it. http://www.franklin.art/art/2018-08-14-aquinnah-august-14-2/
Wonderful painting Franklin
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting. -Epictetus
The mind is everything. What you think you become. -Gautama Buddha
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
-Epictetus
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows. -Epictetus
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. -Epictetus
The Fates guide the person who accepts them and hinder the person who resists them. -Cleanthes
If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked. -Epictetus
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly. -Epictetus
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. -Epictetus
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope. -Epictetus
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete. -Epictetus
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The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. -Epictetus
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. -Epictetus
Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it. -Epictetus
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. -Epictetus
The first step: Don’t be anxious. Nature controls it all.
Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you’re alive and able–be good.
As the same fire assumes different shapes when it consumes objects differing in shape, so does the one self take the shape of every creature in whom he is present.
To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Treat whatever happens as wholly natural; not novel or hard to deal with; but familiar and easily handled.
Give yourself a gift: the present moment.
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.