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There is no doubt that a blizzard has a bewildering and numbing effect upon the brain of any one exposed to it.
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The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoilt, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your career.
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The movement of the floes was beyond all human control, and there was nothing to be gained by allowing one's mind to struggle with the problems of the future, though it was hard to avoid anxiety at times.
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A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.
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At times I would rise up, a flash of energetic freedom would dart through my soul, accompanied with a faint beam of hope, that flickered for a moment, and then vanished.
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A man's troubles are always half disposed of, when he finds endurance his only remedy.
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Joy deserted my heart, and for a long, long time I lived in doubt, anxiety and fear.
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A night's sleep, the sovereign remedy for the smaller vexations of life, had no effect on it.
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At first I hoped that the cloud would pass away of itself; but it did not.
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There are a thousand other instances in which application has conquered all obstacles, and proved that nothing which the mind has set itself to endure is difficult.
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the mind can convert and change everything that impedes its activity into matter for its action; hindrance in its work becomes its real help, and every obstruction makes for its progress
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each rational being can make every impediment in his way a proper matter for himself to act upon, and can use it for his guiding purpose, whatever it may be
Marcus Aureliusdisputed·The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (trans. George W. Chrystal)·1902
Attribution contested
This is the passage behind the slogan the obstacle is the way, which Marcus never wrote. That phrase is the title of a 2014 book, and the sentence usually quoted with it -- the impediment to action advances action, what stands in the way becomes the way -- is Gregory Hays's 2002 translation, still in copyright. The thought is genuinely his; the memorable English is not.
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No man can hinder the proper work of the mind.
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You are going to make mistakes — own them, make amends, and move on. Guilt and regret kills many a man before their time. Turn the page, get off the ride.
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I have never had any trouble turning the page in the book of my life.
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The ultimate effect of parasitism is always a paralysis of the will and an inability to compel oneself into any course of action for the moment unpleasurable and exhaustive.
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No tyranny of circumstances can permanently imprison a determined will.
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A hopeless feeling descends on one and is hard to fight off.
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There is no cutting of the Gordian knots of life; each must be smilingly unravelled.
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Native deformity cannot be rectified, a dead friend cannot return, and the hours of youth trifled away in folly, or lost in sickness, cannot be restored.
Samuel Johnsonverified·The Rambler No. 52, in The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2·September 15, 1750
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Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
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Little by little, through patience and long-suffering, thou shalt conquer by the help of God, rather than by violence and thine own strength of will.
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One of my superstitions had always been when I started to go any where, or to do anything, not to turn back, or stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
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Where there's a will there's a way.
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If you want to change the world get over being a sugar cookie and keep moving forward.