

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
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More from Marcus Aurelius
“Look within. Within is the fountain of the good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.”
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Meditations
verified“Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.”
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Meditations
verified“Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.”
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Meditations
verified“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”
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verified“Very little is needed to make a happy life.”
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Meditations
verified“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
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“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”
Helen Keller
The Simplest Way to be Happy · 1933
verified“No doubt the reason is that character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
Helen Keller
Helen Keller's Journal · 1938
verified“Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.”
Helen Keller
We Bereaved · 1929
verified“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
You Learn by Living · 1960
verified“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Harijan · 1947
verified“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
Mahatma Gandhi
The Doctrine of the Sword, Young India · 1920
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