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Quotes by Roman Authors
"Start today creating a vision for yourself, your life, and your career. Bounce back from adversity and create what you want, rebuild and rebrand. Tell yourself it's possible along the way, have patience, and maintain peace with yourself during the process."
"The bigger the victory, the bigger the battle. Still, be the light and a change agent for healing, restoration and transformation."
"Preparation time is necessary for your growth. Trust and believe everything you're going through is preparing you for some request you put out into the Universe."
"Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circumstance could change and you may need it."
"To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy."
"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."
"Give yourself permission 2 evolve. Become a philosopher, come up with your own interpretation of life and stop accepting someone else's as your truth."
"F you wish to put off all worry, assume that what you fear may happen is certainly going to happen."
"I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want."
"Freedom of Speech doesn't justify online bullying. Words have power, be careful how you use them."
"If it comes, let it come. If it goes, it's ok, let it go. Let things come and go. Stay calm, don't let anything disturb your peace, and carry on."
"Success will teach you who your real friends are."
"To live long it is necessary to live slowly."
"Living in peace has transformative power!"
"For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant."
"When spirits fall, their darkness is revealed, for they are stripped of the garment of your light. By the misery and restlessness which they then suffer you make clear to us how noble a being is your rational creation, for nothing less than yourself suffices to give it rest and happiness. This means that it cannot find them in itself. For you, O God, will shine on the darkness about us. From you proceeds our garment of light, and our dusk shall be noonday."
"There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing."
"It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden too can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits."
"When I think over what I have said I envy dumb people."
"It is indeed a song of steps. And as I have often said to you, these steps are not made to descend but to ascend. The questioner wishes then to ascend; and where does he wish to ascend if not to heaven? What does this mean-to ascend to heaven? Does he wish to ascend so as to be in the heavens with the sun, the moon, and the stars? Far from that! But there is in heaven an eternal Jerusalem where the angels, our co-citizens, are. From these co-citizens we on earth are estranged. In this exile we sigh; in the city we shall have joy."
"If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost he need never regret his limited ability."
"Just as apples when unripe are torn from trees, but when ripe and mellow drop down, so it is violence that takes life from young men, ripeness from old. This ripeness is so delightful to me that, as I approach nearer to death, I seem, as it were, to be sighting land, and to be coming to port at last after a long voyage."
"Today, spend a little time cultivating relationships offline. Never forget that everybody isn't on social media."
"Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, andwhatever days fortune will give, count themas profit."
"It is not the actions of others which trouble us (for those actions are controlled by their governing part), but rather it is our own judgments. Therefore remove those judgments and resolve to let go of your anger, and it will already be gone. How do you let go? By realizing that such actions are not shameful to you."
"Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men."
"Anything cracked will shatter at a touch."
"We are inflamed, by Thy Gift we are kindled; and are carried upwards; we glow inwardly, and go forwards. We ascend Thy ways that be in our heart, and sing a song of degrees; we glow inwardly with Thy fire, with Thy good fire, and we go; because we go upwards to the peace of Jerusalem: for gladdened was I in those who said unto me, We will go up to the house of the Lord. There hath Thy good pleasure placed us, that we may desire nothing else, but to abide there for ever."
"It is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it."
"Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.)"
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