Neither in thy actions be sluggish nor in thy conversation without method, nor wandering in thy thoughts, nor let there be in… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Don’t let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole. Don’t try to picture everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Discard everything except these few truths: we can live only in the present moment, in this brief now; all the rest of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Consider the past; such great changes of political supremacies. Thou mayest foresee also the things which will be. For they will certainly… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Short is the little time which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Even while a thing is in the act of coming into existence, some part of it has already ceased to be. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“You have embarked, made the voyage, and come to shore; get out. If indeed to another life, there is no want of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“In the life of man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his senses a dim rushlight, his… — 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
“But death and life, honor and dishonor, pain and pleasure—all these things equally happen to good men and bad, being things which… — 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
One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Remember how long you have been putting off these things, and how often you have received an opportunity from the gods, and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it — 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