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"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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"As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it."
"I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out."
"It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open the door and enter that darkness, but I have to be very careful. I can find my story there. Then I bring that thing to the surface, into the real world."
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"Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams."
"Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power."
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"And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last."
"Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved."
"III. I have often wondered how it should come to pass, that every man loving himself best, should more regard other men's opinions concerning himself than his own. For if any God or grave master standing by, should command any of us to think nothing by himself but what he should presently speak out; no man were able to endure it, though but for one day. Thus do we fear more what our neighbours will think of us, than what we ourselves."
"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig."
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