“You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgement, and to possess a large room for… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Consider, for example, and you will find that almost all the transactions in the time of Vespasian differed little from those of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Not to waste time on nonsense. Not to be taken in by conjurors and hoodoo artists with their talk about incantations and… — 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
“The goal that you hope you will one day arrive at after a long and roundabout journey you are able to possess… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“For a man cannot lose either the past or the future: for what a man has not, how can any one take… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“None of us have much time. And yet you act as if things were eternal—the way you fear and long for them.…… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Remember how long you’ve been putting this off, how many extensions the gods gave you, and you didn’t use them. At some… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Whatever time you choose is the right time. Not late, not early.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If you separate from . . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future .… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Objective judgment, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance—now, at this very moment—of all external… — 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
