“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
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“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
“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
“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
“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, and do so with all your heart.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
Annie Dillard · The Writing Life, 1989
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
Confucius
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
