Welcome to the Babblingmonki website - A Collection of Thoughts
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." - Marcus Aurelius
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." - 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
"If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it." - 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
"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality." - Seneca
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Seneca
"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life." - Seneca
"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor." - Seneca
"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body." - Seneca
"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters." - Epictetus
"Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control." - Epictetus
"Man is disturbed not by things, but by the views he takes of them." - Epictetus
"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it." - Epictetus
"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants." - Epictetus
"He who fears death will never do anything worth of a man who is alive." — Seneca
"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." — Epictetus
"To be calm is the highest achievement of the self." — Zen Stoic Maxim
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