Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
MARCUS AURELIUSReceive without conceit, release without struggle.
MARCUS AURELIUSConfine yourself to the present.
MARCUS AURELIUSYou always own the option of having no opinion.
MARCUS AURELIUSWhat we do now echoes in eternity.
MARCUS AURELIUSNever 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 AURELIUSHumans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
MARCUS AURELIUSWhat we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
MARCUS AURELIUSDo what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.
MARCUS AURELIUSMisfortune nobly born is good fortune.
MARCUS AURELIUSIt is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
MARCUS AURELIUSReject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
MARCUS AURELIUSHow ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
MARCUS AURELIUSThat which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.
MARCUS AURELIUSLook to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
MARCUS AURELIUS