“Stir up thy mind, and recall thy wits again from thy natural dreams, and visions, and when thou art perfectly awoken, and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“A key point to bear in mind: The value of attentiveness varies in proportion to its object. You’re better off not giving… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Our actions may be impeded... But there can be no impeding our intentions or our dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole... — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“In the mind that is once truly disciplined and purged, thou canst not find anything, either foul or impure, or as it… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“What then is that which is able to conduct a man? One thing and only one, philosophy. But this consists in keeping… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Have I done something for the general interest? Well then I have had my reward. Let this always be present to thy… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Our actions may be impeded by them, but there can be no impeding our intentions or our dispositions. Because we can accommodate… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Now it is true that these may impede my action, but they are no impediments to my affects and disposition, which have… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Everywhere and continually it is in your power to be reverently content with your present circumstance, to behave to men who are… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Nothing that goes on in anyone else’s mind can harm you. Nor can the shifts and changes in the world around you.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
God sees the minds (ruling principles) of all men bared of the material vesture and rind and impurities. For with his intellectual… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone - those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“These things thou must always have in mind: What is the nature of the universe, and what is mine—in particular: This unto… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“God sees the minds (ruling principles) of all men bared of the material vesture and rind and impurities. For with his intellectual… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become a father — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their mind. — 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
