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grokit

well-worn member
Happy b-day bob!

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grokit

well-worn member
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life.”

~ Henry David Thoreau
 

momofthegoons

vapor accessory addict
"Your smile, your encouraging word, your willingness to just be “present” with another, has touched people in more ways than you realize. I only tell you this today so that you never lose faith. Faith in how life is moving through you — and how you are moving through life.” ~ Neale Donald Walsch
 

OOBubblesOO

Over-User of gifs
"Spend no more time arguing about what a good man should be, be one."

"You have power over your mind, not ouside events. Realize this and you will find strength."

"When you arise in the morning think of what a precious privelage it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."


"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul."

"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."

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All by Marcus Aurelius, emperor of Rome from 161-180 AD, the last (and my favorite) of the Five Good Emperors



Bubs :tup:
 
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