“Not to feel exasperated, or defeated, or despondent because your days aren't packed with wise and moral actions. But to get back… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“To feel affection for people even when they make mistakes is uniquely human. You can do it, if you simply recognize: that… — 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
If anyone can refute me-show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective-I'l l gladly change. It's… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Failure to observe what is in the mind of another has seldom made a man unhappy; but those who do not observe… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When you are annoyed at someone's mistake, immediately look at yourself and reflect how you also fail; for example, in thinking that… — 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
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
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