12 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‘This is a misfortune’ but ‘To bear this worthily is good fortune.’
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius 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 it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
