josh willins

Onward & Upward

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“You will lose friends, you will lose lovers, you will lose comfort, but if in losing them you find yourself, you have gained more than kings.” Aurelius

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“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.” Voltaire

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“Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own.” Aurelius

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"If anyone could prove to me that Christ is outside the truth, and if the truth really did exclude Christ, I should prefer to stay with Christ and not with the truth." Dostoyevsky

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“The most spiritual, the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, hardness, against themselves & others, in experiments. Their joy, self conquest. Difficult tasks, a privilege; burdens that crush others, a recreation.” Nietzsche

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“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.” Dostoevsky

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“The highest form of peace is to have no desire to be understood, desired, pitied, or even known.”

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“Remember, you will die.”

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“Modern man cannot see God because they do not look low enough.” Jung

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“You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you.”

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“To be happy you must eliminate two things: the fear of a bad future, and the memory of a bad past.” Seneca

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“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle

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“Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage.” Nin

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“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength.” Aurelius

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“Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought, for the human spirit is colored by such impressions.” Aurelius

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“The greatest remedy for anger is delay”. Seneca

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“When a man can’t find a deep sense of meaning he will distract himself with pleasure.” Frankl

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“No matter what has occurred in your life up to this point, it should have no bearing at all on how you live from now on.” Kishimi

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“Nothing changes if nothing changes.” Dostoyevsky

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“In the midst of chaos. There is always, also, opportunity.” Tzu