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“Comfort is the worst addiction.”

Found on Facebook.

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Source: the Anand Zen Facebook page.

“The universe is change…”

“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”

— Marcus Aurelius

 

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“Consider thyself to be dead …”

“Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.”

— Marcus Aurelius

 

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Marcus Aurelius, fragment of a bronze portrait.

Roman artwork, after 170 CE.