Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
To live happily is an inward power of the soul. It is within ourselves and in our way of thinking. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I can at once become happy anywhere, for he is happy who has found himself a happy lot. In a word, happiness… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
"Sweep me up and send me where you please." For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“It is precisely its unorthodox touches—its intimation of the idea of a personal god, its flashes of vulnerability and pain, its unwavering… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Thou hast already had sufficient experience, that of those many things that hitherto thou hast erred and wandered about, thou couldst not… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“These two things be common to the souls, as of God, so of men, and of every reasonable creature, first that in… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
“We should remark the grace and fascination that there is even in the incidentals of Nature's processes.. When a loaf of bread,. for instance,.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
“If therefore it be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself, "I have to go to work - as a human being. What… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
