For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is not the body, nor the personality that is the true self. The true self is eternal. Even on the point… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When forced, as it seems, by your environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into your self, staying in discord… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I… — 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
If anyone can refute me-show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective-I'l l gladly change. It's… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant:… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity,… — 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
Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I… — 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself, "I have to go to work - as a human being. What… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
