Marcus Aurelius Quotes
The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.
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I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
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I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
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I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.
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I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
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I like to do Pilates.
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I was just lucky I lived in this time of mass-market paperbacks.
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Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.
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I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.
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The First Amendment does not give you the right to commit a crime.
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I was sick of being articulate and loud and charming. I didn't want to play that guy anymore. I wanted to play the absolute opposite of that.
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You can never, ever worry about making mistakes or things like that. I'm going to go out and play ball, and that's what I do.
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We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?
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The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.
