“Everything is only an opinion, and that opinion is in your power.”Marcus Aurelius · Gânduri către sine · 180 · Cartea XII, 22
Events never touch you; only the label you attach to them has power over you.
Between the world and you there always stands a filter: judgment. A job rejection is not an insult but a fact; the humiliation comes only when you label it proof of worthlessness. Marcus Aurelius does not tell you to lie to yourself, but to remember that the label is yours and can be changed. This is the freedom no one can take from you: the right to reinterpret.
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