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6 quotes that saved me

Six lines that kept me going at my lowest moments, made for your phone’s lock screen. Each one comes in dark and light.

On your phone: press and hold a wallpaper, then tap Save to Photos on an iPhone, or Download image on Android.

On a computer: use the Download link under each one.

Dark

Dark phone wallpaper: “We have two lives, and the second begins when we realise we only have one.” A saying often credited to Confucius.
ConfuciusA saying often credited to himDownload
Dark phone wallpaper: “Stop telling yourself you’re not qualified, good enough or worthy. Growth happens when you start doing the things you’re not qualified to do.” Steven Bartlett.
Steven BartlettDownload
Dark phone wallpaper: “If a person gave away your body to some passerby, you’d be furious. Yet you hand over your mind to anyone who comes along, so they may abuse you, leaving it disturbed and troubled, have you no shame in that?” Epictetus, Enchiridion 28.
EpictetusEnchiridion 28Download
Dark phone wallpaper: “If you find something very difficult to achieve yourself, don’t imagine it impossible, for anything possible and proper for another person can be achieved as easily by you.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.19.
Marcus AureliusMeditations 6.19Download
Dark phone wallpaper: “You come from a long, unbroken line of ancestors who survived unimaginable adversity, difficulty, and struggle. It’s their genes and their blood that run through your body right now.” Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic.
Ryan HolidayThe Daily StoicDownload
Dark phone wallpaper: “All of us are born unique. This uniqueness is marked genetically in our DNA. We are a one-time phenomenon in the universe. Our exact genetic makeup has never occurred before nor will it ever be repeated.” Robert Greene, Mastery.
Robert GreeneMasteryDownload

Light

Light phone wallpaper: “We have two lives, and the second begins when we realise we only have one.” A saying often credited to Confucius.
ConfuciusA saying often credited to himDownload
Light phone wallpaper: “Stop telling yourself you’re not qualified, good enough or worthy. Growth happens when you start doing the things you’re not qualified to do.” Steven Bartlett.
Steven BartlettDownload
Light phone wallpaper: “If a person gave away your body to some passerby, you’d be furious. Yet you hand over your mind to anyone who comes along, so they may abuse you, leaving it disturbed and troubled, have you no shame in that?” Epictetus, Enchiridion 28.
EpictetusEnchiridion 28Download
Light phone wallpaper: “If you find something very difficult to achieve yourself, don’t imagine it impossible, for anything possible and proper for another person can be achieved as easily by you.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.19.
Marcus AureliusMeditations 6.19Download
Light phone wallpaper: “You come from a long, unbroken line of ancestors who survived unimaginable adversity, difficulty, and struggle. It’s their genes and their blood that run through your body right now.” Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic.
Ryan HolidayThe Daily StoicDownload
Light phone wallpaper: “All of us are born unique. This uniqueness is marked genetically in our DNA. We are a one-time phenomenon in the universe. Our exact genetic makeup has never occurred before nor will it ever be repeated.” Robert Greene, Mastery.
Robert GreeneMasteryDownload

The lines from Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus are in Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman’s translation, from The Daily Stoic (2016).

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