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My chosen quote today is Epictetus c. 50-c. 135 AD. Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher who was born into slavery. Epictetus spent his youth in Rome as a slave to Epaphroditus, a wealthy freedman and secretary to Nero. His social position was a complicated thing because he had the low status of a slave but high status of someone connected to Imperial power.

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.”

Epictetus

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My chosen quote today is by the 13th century poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian and Sufi mystic, Rumi (1207-1273).

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

Rumi

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I hope everyone is having a good week so far. I keep forgetting what day of the week I am on as I’m completely confused because it is the school holidays.

My chosen quote today is from The Hunger Games which of course is by the wonderful Suzanne Collins (1962).

“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”

Suzanne Collins

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My chosen quote today is by one of my favourites who always seems to have a quote for every occasion.

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

Aristotle

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My chosen quote today is by the American Baptist minister, activist and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968).

“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”

Martin Luther King Jr

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I hope everyone is having a good week so far. We have had a glorious few days of weather but sadly I have been stuck indoors teaching so haven’t seen much of it.

My chosen quote for today is by the American novelist and Professor Emerita Maxine Hong Kingston (1940).

“In a time of destruction, create something.”

Maxine Hong Kingston

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My chosen quote for today is by the American naturalist and nature essayist John Burroughs (1837-1921).

“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.”

John Burroughs

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My chosen quote today is by the English author Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970). The quote is from A Room with a View.

“It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”

E. M. Forster

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