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
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
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
-Epictetus
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
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
Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.
-Marcus Aurelius
It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
-Seneca