Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
But if anything in thy own dispositiongives thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy opinion? And even if thou art pained… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If it's in your control, why do you do it? If it's in someone else's control, then who are you blaming? Atoms?… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Above, below, all around are the movements of the elements. But the motion of virtue is in none of these: it is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Consider frequently the connection of all things in the universe and their relation to one another. For things are somehow implicated with… — 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
Why do you hunger for length of days? The point of life is to follow reason and the divine spirit and to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Keep reminding yourself of the way things are connected, of great relatedness. All things are implicated in one another and in sympathy… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
God sees the inner spirit stripped of flesh, skin, and all debris. For his own mind only touches the spirit that he… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Death--a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When you are annoyed at someone's mistake, immediately look at yourself and reflect how you also fail; for example, in thinking that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Take the shortest route. The one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
In one way an arrow moves, in another way the mind. The mind indeed, both when it exercises caution and when it… — 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
People find pressure in different ways. I find it in keeping my mind clear. In not turning away from people or the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant,… — 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
