I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men… — 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
