Ifs Quote by Marcus Aurelius Download Open image “Let thine occupations be few, saith the sage, if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life.” — Marcus Aurelius ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ifs Life Occupation Sage Tranquil
The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue. [Lat., Semita certe Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.] — Juvenal Copy Share Image
We could go to monasteries. I could show you people who are very wise and they have great willpower, but they're not happy. They… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Therefore a sage has said, 'I will do nothing (of purpose), and the people will be transformed of themselves;” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
Unkind people spread malicious tales, and well-intentioned people also censure; but in either case the tranquil sage remains unconcerned. Nowhere is there to be… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Now I find that in pure obedience the mind learns contentment, in appearing weak and foolish to the wisdom which is of this World;… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
“Through their teachings they dignify even the most mundane professions. According to them any profession or work that adds to the common good of… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Virtue became less the harsh and martial self-sacrifice of antiquity and more the modern willingness to get along with others for the sake of… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
“People of true understanding nourish sages and through them, nourish the whole world.” — Wu Wei Copy Share Image
The saying goes, 'The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.' This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Active Life If an expert does not have some problem to vex him, he is unhappy! If a philosopher's teaching is never attacked,… — Thomas Merton 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
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
