When you have been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in any manner, quickly return to yourself, and do not continue out… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements. — 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
Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible.… — 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
When the sovereign spirit within us is true to nature, it stands poised and ready to adjust to every change in circumstances… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
