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   You cannot control what happens to you, but you can always control how you react — and that is where your real power lies.

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   True power lies in choosing your own reaction, not in the events surrounding you.

   Marcus Aurelius was a Roman emperor, but he wrote his thoughts as private notes to himself, never meant for publication. He kept repeating that bad weather, rude people, or bad luck cannot touch his inner peace if he chooses how to respond. Real power lies in choosing your reaction.

   “If thou art pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs thee, but thy own judgment about it.”

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