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My mother was a very positive thinker; she was always active, always doing something good.
— Joseph Wirthlin
To be somebody, you must last.
— Ruth Gordon
The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It is a miracle that 22 million black people have not risen up against their oppressors--in which they would have been justified by all moral criteria, and even by the democratic tradition!...It is a miracle that the the American black people have remained a peaceful people, while catching all the centuries of hell that they have caught here in white man's heaven!
— Malcolm X
Whether you are shivering with cold or too hot, sleepy or wide awake, spoken well of or badly, dying, or doing anything else, do not let it interfere with doing what is right. For whatever causes us to die is also one of life's processes. Even for this, nothing is required of us than to accomplish well the task at hand.
— Marcus Aurelius
Disgraceful: for the soul to give up when the body is still going strong.
— Marcus Aurelius
Remember how long you have been putting off these things, and how often you have received an opportunity from the gods, and yet do not use it.
— Marcus Aurelius
Goodness—what defines a good person. Keep to it in everything you do.
— Marcus Aurelius
Remember how long thou hast already put off these things, and how
— Marcus Aurelius
Stupidity is expecting figs in winter, or children in old age.
— Marcus Aurelius
Do your best to convince them. But act on your own, if justice requires it. If met with force, then fall back on acceptance and peaceability. Use the setback to practice other virtues. Remember that our efforts are subject to circumstances; you weren't aiming to do the impossible. —Aiming to do what, then? To try. And you succeeded. What you set out to do is accomplished.
— Marcus Aurelius
The soul of man is thus an emanation from the godhead, into whom it will eventually be re-absorbed. The divine ruling principle makes all things work together for good, but for the good of the whole. The highest good of man is consciously to work with God for the common good, and this is the sense in which the Stoic tried to live in accord with nature. In the individual it is virtue alone which enables him to do this; as Providence rules the universe, so virtue in the soul must rule man.
— Marcus Aurelius
Keep thyself therefore, truly simple, good, sincere, grave, free from all ostentation, a lover of that which is just, religious, kind, tender-hearted, strong and vigorous to undergo anything that becomes thee.
— Marcus Aurelius