People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
A man's true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“To undertake nothing: i. at random or without a purpose; ii. for any reason but the common good.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Never act without purpose and resolve, or without the means to finish the job. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Reason and the reasoning faculty need no foreign assistance, but are sufficient for their own purposes. They move within themselves, and make… — 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
How can a man find a sensible way to live? One way and one only- Philosophy. And my philosophy means keeping that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Casting aside other things, hold to the precious few; and besides bear in mind that every man lives only the present, which… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Everything is here for a purpose, from horses to vine shoots. What's surprising about that? Even the sun will tell you, "I… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose. — 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
