In his Meditations, Marcus Aurelius did not sugarcoat life: “When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own — not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me.

Arianna Huffington Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
Also known as: Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington
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About Arianna Huffington

Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington (born Ariadni-Anna Stasinopoulou July 15, 1950) is a Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman.

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