Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyong our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your best self; for that does fall within your control.
Epictetus
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Tag Archives: Life
Be prepared
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Who you want to be
For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Sail we must
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach th Port of Heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimges against it – but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Being defeated
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Who says we have to grow up?
Walt Disney
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Being alive
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
Alan Watts
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Don’t fear mistakes
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
Al Bernstein
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Watch your thoughts
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
Ernest Holmes
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Set some goals
The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
Benjamin Mays
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