The world is a living being - one nature, one soul. Keep that in mind. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity? — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself! — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee? — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Things themselves cannot touch the soul, not in the least degree, nor have they admission to the soul nor can they turn… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
To them that ask: Where hast thou seen the Gods, or how knowest thou certainly that there be Gods, that thou art… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these - that where… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Neither in thy actions be sluggish nor in thy conversation without method, nor wandering in thy thoughts, nor let there be in… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It will suffice thee to remember as concerning pain ... that the mind may, by stopping all manner of commerce and sympathy… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very… — 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
Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Are you distracted by outward cares? Then allow yourself a space of quiet wherein you can add to your knowledge of the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Disgraceful: for the soul to give up when the body is still going strong.” — 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
Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. — 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
