The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The inner master, when confronted with an obstacle, uses it as fuel, like a fire which consumes things that are thrown into… — 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
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