“We should remark the grace and fascination that there is even in the incidentals of Nature's processes.. When a loaf of bread,.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Nature set a limit on sleep - as it did on eating and drinking. And youre over the limit. But not of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Take the shortest route. The one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Look at everything that exists, and observe that it is already in dissolution and in change, and as it were putrefaction or… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too - ready to understand heaven and earth.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“First, do not be upset: all things follow the nature of the Whole, and in a little while you will be no… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Why do you hunger for length of days? The point of life is to follow reason and the divine spirit and to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Stir up thy mind, and recall thy wits again from thy natural dreams, and visions, and when thou art perfectly awoken, and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Do not fear death, but welcome it, since it too comes from nature. For just as we are young and grow old,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear. The same things happen to another, and either… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The whole contains nothing which is not or its advantage; and all natures indeed have this common principle, but the nature of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Do what nature now requires. Set thyself in motion, if it is in thy power, and do not look about thee to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Reflect frequently upon the instability of things, and how very fast the scenes of nature are shifted. Matter is in perpetual flux.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“what death is, and the fact that, if a man looks at it in itself, and by the abstractive power of reflection… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“He that knoweth not what the world is, knoweth not where he himself is. And he that knoweth not what the world… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Do you not see then that for yourself also to change… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Remember, however, that you are formed by nature to bear everything whose tolerability depends on your own opinion to make it so,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Thou must hasten therefore; not only because thou art every day nearer unto death than other, but also because that intellective faculty… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“The soul of a man harms itself, first and foremost, when it becomes (as far as it can) a separate growth, a… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
To her who gives and takes back all, to nature, the man who is instructed and modest says, Give what thou wilt;… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Not even the vicissitudes of fortune are contrary to nature or to the providential ordering of the universe. It all flows from… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The true joy of humankind is in doing that which is most proper to our nature; and the first property of people… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Everything is born from change. ...there is nothing nature loves more that to alter what exists and make new things like it.… — 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
Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature,… — 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
