You have power over your mind not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

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Find Strength in Adversity

Lesson: Don't waste energy on things outside your control. Focus on your own actions and reactions.

Focus On What You Can Control

Lesson: Events themselves don't upset us, but our judgments about them do. Train yourself to view situations rationally.

Be Mindful of Your Judgments

Lesson: Reflect on your mortality regularly. This keeps you grounded and appreciative of the present moment.

Embrace Mortality

Everything changes and nothing remains still... you cannot step twice into the same stream.

Lesson: Accept life's ebbs and flows. Align yourself with the natural course of life instead of fighting it.

Live in Accordance with Nature

Lesson: Change is the only constant. Accept it and adjust rather than resist it.

Accept Change

Nature does nothing in vain.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Lesson: Live by your principles, not by emotions or the behavior of others. Virtue should guide your actions.

Be Virtuous, Not Reactive

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Lesson: Growth comes from discomfort and challenges. Embrace hardship as part of your development.

Embrace Discomfort

He who fears death will never do anything worth of a man who is alive.

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

Lesson: Discipline is the path to freedom. Cultivate self-control to master your mind and desires.

Practice Self Discipline

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Lesson: Consider the worst-case scenario to reduce fear and anxiety. This helps you appreciate what you have.

MARCUS AURELIUS

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