You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
MARCUS AURELIUSYou have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.
MARCUS AURELIUSOur life is what our thoughts make it.
MARCUS AURELIUSLife is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
MARCUS AURELIUSLook to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
MARCUS AURELIUSAdapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
MARCUS AURELIUSLive out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.
MARCUS AURELIUSDeath is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
MARCUS AURELIUSBe tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
MARCUS AURELIUSAll men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe 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 AURELIUSHow ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
MARCUS AURELIUSWhat we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
MARCUS AURELIUSNo one can lose either the past or the future.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
MARCUS AURELIUS