"We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?"

Marcus Annaeus Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Self, Reflection, Virtue, Discipline

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"We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?"

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"Your EGO feeds on the volume of the mental clutter, the greater the intensity the more crystallized is your EGO. Man dominates and exherts his mental superiority over others. Be Aware! Stop Mental Clutter, Kill EGO, Be YOU!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

Self, Ego, Mental, Awareness, Superiority

"But if you happen to be a man, sometime in the future, and you've made it this far, please remember: you will never be subjected to the temptation of feeling you must forgive, a man, as a woman."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Self, Thought, Fate, Mind

"I'm not much but I'm all I have."

Philip K. Dick, American Writer

Self, Identity, Humility, Truth

"Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man but not free to be another."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French Novelist

Self, Freedom, Constraint, Identity, Authenticity

"Sometimes I act like I have my shit together more than I do. Sometimes I act like I don't have my shit together as much as I do. I'm done acting. I'd rather just be okay with however together my shit is at the time, and still do my best to show up, as I am."

Scott Stabile, American Author

Self, Authenticity, Sensitivity, Truth

"If you just can't get rid of envy, then start creating a life, so that if you saw yourself from afar, you'd be envious of you."

Charles F. Glassman, American Author

Self, Envy, Creativity, Life

"I have tried everything except being myself!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

Self, Identity, Authenticity, Discovery

"There is absolutely no point in comparing ourselves to others. Everyone brings to the world exactly what they are meant to bring, and in doing so touches exactly who they are meant to touch."

Scott Stabile, American Author

Self, Individual, Comparison, Values

"I exist as I am that is enough If no other in the world be aware I sit content And if each and all be aware I sit content."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Self, Contentment, Existence, Acceptance

"I believe you to be strictly honorable.'He thoughtfully emptied his cup. 'I wish I could add you were intelligent,' he went on, knocking on his head with his knuckles."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Self, Honor, Intelligence, Wisdom, Reflection

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"We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

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"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for no wind is the right wind."

Purpose

"Not he who has little but he who wishes more is poor."

Contentment

"No man can live happily who regards himself alone who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another if thou wishest to live for thyself."

Ethics

"For many men the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles it only changes them."

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"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage."

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"The good things that belong to prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

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"Your EGO feeds on the volume of the mental clutter, the greater the intensity the more crystallized is your EGO. Man dominates and exherts his mental superiority over others. Be Aware! Stop Mental Clutter, Kill EGO, Be YOU!"

"But if you happen to be a man, sometime in the future, and you've made it this far, please remember: you will never be subjected to the temptation of feeling you must forgive, a man, as a woman."

"I'm not much but I'm all I have."

"Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man but not free to be another."

"Sometimes I act like I have my shit together more than I do. Sometimes I act like I don't have my shit together as much as I do. I'm done acting. I'd rather just be okay with however together my shit is at the time, and still do my best to show up, as I am."

"If you just can't get rid of envy, then start creating a life, so that if you saw yourself from afar, you'd be envious of you."

"I have tried everything except being myself!"

"There is absolutely no point in comparing ourselves to others. Everyone brings to the world exactly what they are meant to bring, and in doing so touches exactly who they are meant to touch."

"I exist as I am that is enough If no other in the world be aware I sit content And if each and all be aware I sit content."

"I believe you to be strictly honorable.'He thoughtfully emptied his cup. 'I wish I could add you were intelligent,' he went on, knocking on his head with his knuckles."

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"We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

"Where fear is happiness is not."

"It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune."

"Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness."

"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for no wind is the right wind."

"Not he who has little but he who wishes more is poor."

"No man can live happily who regards himself alone who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another if thou wishest to live for thyself."

"For many men the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles it only changes them."

"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage."

"The good things that belong to prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."