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
The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it - either gratefully better than or bitterly worse… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee. — 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
In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Think not so much of what you lack as of what you have: but of the things that you have, select the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of… — 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
