“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
“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
“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