“What am I but a little flesh, a little breath, and the thinking part that rules the whole?” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Never forget that the universe is a single living organism possessed of one substance and one soul, holding all things suspended in… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life. — 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
From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“5. Concentrate every minute like a Roman—like a man—on doing what’s in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness, tenderly, willingly,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“that that life which any the longest liver, or the shortest liver parts with, is for length and duration the very same,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks. Why art thou disturbed? What is there new in this? What unsettles… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Let not the general representation unto thyself of the wretchedness of this our mortal life, trouble thee.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“You have to assemble your life yourself—action by action. And be satisfied if each one achieves its goal, as far as it… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
As thou thyself art a component part of a social system, so let every act of thine be a component part of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“We ought to consider not only that our life is daily wasting away and a smaller part of it is left, but… — 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
