“Receive without pride, relinquish without struggle.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Receive without pride, relinquish without struggle.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations, Book 2
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations, Book 4
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“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.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations, Book 7
“Confine yourself to the present.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations, Book 5