“Do not let the future disturb you, for you will arrive there, if you arrive, with the same reason you now apply… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“time is fixed for thee, which if thou dost not use for clearing away the clouds from thy mind, it will go… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
One of the recurring themes in Marcus' handbook is leadership's responsibility to work intelligently with what it is given and not waste… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Discard everything except these few truths: we can live only in the present moment, in this brief now; all the rest of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“If you suffer distress because of some external cause, it is not the thing itself that troubles you but your judgement about… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Spend your brief moment according to nature's law, and serenely greet the journey's end as an olive falls when it is ripe,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Consider, for example, and you will find that almost all the transactions in the time of Vespasian differed little from those of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If you separate from . . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future .… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Remember how long you’ve been putting this off, how many extensions the gods gave you, and you didn’t use them. At some… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Though thou shouldst be going to live three thousand years, and as many times ten thousand years, still remember that no man… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“spend not thy time in thinking, what such a man doth, and to what end: what he saith, and what he thinks,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Remember that even if you were to live for three thousand years, or thirty thousand, you could not lose any other life… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Since it is possible that thou mayest depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly. But to go… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not waste time fantasizing about a world of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Do external things distract you? Then make time for yourself to learn something worthwhile; stop letting yourself be pulled in all directions.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Thanks to the gods I didn't spend much time while growing up with my grandfather's mistress and preserved the flower of my… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“None of us have much time. And yet you act as if things were eternal—the way you fear and long for them.…… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing… — 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
From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
He who pays no attention to what his neighbor does, says or thinks, preferring to concentrate on making his own actions appropriate… — 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
Think of the universal substance, of which thou has a very small portion; and of universal time, of which a short and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“that there is but a certain limit of time appointed unto thee, which if thou shalt not make use of to calm… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of… — 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
Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains . . . But all this is… — 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
