The soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these - that where… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Do what nature now requires. Set thyself in motion, if it is in thy power, and do not look about thee to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It's normal to feel pain in your hands and feet, if you're using your feet as feet and your hands as hands.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Since it is possible that thou mayest depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly. But to go… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The mind in itself wants nothing, unless it creates a want for itself; therefore it is both free from perturbation and unimpeded,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around them. That's all you need… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Dig inside. Inside is the fountain of good, and it will forever flow, if you will forever dig. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
God sees the inner spirit stripped of flesh, skin, and all debris. For his own mind only touches the spirit that he… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If any man should conceive certain things as being really good, such as prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude, he would not after having… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Let thine occupations be few, saith the sage, if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
All things are linked with one another, and this oneness is sacred; there is nothing that is not interconnected with everything else.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Our life is what our thoughts make it. Do every act of your life as if it were your last. In a… — 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
