No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer. — 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
The whole contains nothing that is not for its advantage. By remembering that I am part of such a whole, I shall… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear. The same things happen to another, and either… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Am I doing anything? I do it with reference to the good of mankind. Does anything happen to me? I receive it… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
People find pressure in different ways. I find it in keeping my mind clear. In not turning away from people or the… — 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
Why dost thou not pray... to give thee the faculty of not fearing any of the things which thou fearest, or of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity ... — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Don't let your imagination to be crushed by life as a whole. Don't try to pictures everything bad that could possibly happen.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
What matter and opportunity [for thy activity] art thou avoiding? For what else are all these things, except exercises for the reason,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to… — 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