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Marcus Aurelius

7-Aug

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

6-Aug

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
-Marcus Aurelius

2-Aug

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
-Marcus Aurelius

July 30

Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
-Marcus Aurelius

July 29

I’m going to be meeting with people today who talk too much – people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won’t be surprised or disturbed, for I can’t imagine a world without such people.
-Marcus Aurelius

July 26

Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.
-Marcus Aurelius

July 25

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
-Marcus Aurelius

July 22

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

July 21

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.
-Marcus Aurelius

July 18

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
-Marcus Aurelius

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