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  • #1
    Shunryu Suzuki
    “Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.”
    Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

  • #2
    Shunryu Suzuki
    “If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ”
    Shunryu Suzuki

  • #3
    Shunryu Suzuki
    “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few”
    Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

  • #4
    Shunryu Suzuki
    “enjoy your problems”
    shunryu suzuki

  • #5
    Shunryu Suzuki
    “The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.”
    Shunryu Suzuki

  • #6
    Shunryu Suzuki
    “Whereever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.”
    Shunryu Suzuki

  • #7
    Marcus Aurelius
    “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #8
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #9
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #10
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #11
    Marcus Aurelius
    “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.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #12
    Marcus Aurelius
    “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #13
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #14
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #15
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #16
    Marcus Aurelius
    “If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #17
    Seneca
    “True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
    Seneca

  • #18
    Seneca
    “Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars”
    Seneca

  • #19
    Seneca
    “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”
    Seneca

  • #20
    Seneca
    “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  • #21
    Seneca
    “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  • #22
    Seneca
    “If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
    Seneca the Younger

  • #23
    Seneca
    “It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”
    Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters

  • #24
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #25
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
    Cicero

  • #26
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
    Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
    Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
    Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
    Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
    Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
    Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #27
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “In times of war, the law falls silent.

    Silent enim leges inter arma
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #28
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.”
    Cicero

  • #29
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #30
    Thomas Wolfe
    “Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
    Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again



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