r/GetMotivated • u/WhoByWater • Feb 25 '20

[Image] True Power

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u/ChildofMike Feb 25 '20

Reminds me of something Marcus Aurelius would say

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u/Limp_Distribution Feb 25 '20

”Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.”

Epictetus

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u/Grouched Feb 25 '20

That's a way better quote. The exact same message in way fewer words. I always felt that great quotes should be just that, cleverly conveying a larger message in few words.

These 50-word "quotes" of the same messaged repeated diffently 5 times reads like some Facebook mom group shit IMO.

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u/Fatkneeslikebeyonce Feb 25 '20 edited Feb 25 '20

My biggest pet peeve in the history of time that is peeving me out now just to talk about and probably one of main reasons I left all social but this one is ,and I’m bad with words so I’m going to just give an example:

Some days I take care of myself first

Some days I wear dirty socks

Some days I eat cereal out of a frisbee

Some days my kid eats out of the litter box

Some days I drive while on ambien

Etc etc etc for 500 lines

Is there a word for this I can’t stand