The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Objective judgment, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance—now, at this very moment—of all external… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life… — 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
I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: "What is… — 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 end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Most of what we say and do is unnecessary: remove the superfluity, and you will have more time and less bother. So… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect to the things which come from the external cause; and let there be justice… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is not the actions of others which trouble us (for those actions are controlled by their governing part), but rather it… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
How can a man find a sensible way to live? One way and one only- Philosophy. And my philosophy means keeping that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, endeavor to rouse your faculties, and act up to your kind,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Since you are an integral part of a social system, let every act of yours contribute to the harmonization of social life.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
You need to be prepared for firm decisions and action, without losing gentleness towards those who obstruct or abuse you. It's as… — 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
Remember that there is a God who desires neither praise nor glory from men created in his image, but rather that they,… — 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
