From Marcus Aurelius: “When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized thatContinue reading “Quote of the day 07/21/24”
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Quote of the day 07/07/24
From Marcus Aurelius: “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
Quote of the day 11/18/23
From Marcus Aurelius: “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love …”
Quote of the day 11/17/23
From Marcus Aurelius: “[I have learned] To read with diligence; not to rest satisfied with a light and superficial knowledge, nor quickly to assent to things commonly spoken of.”
Quote of the day 11/10/23
From Marcus Aurelius: “The mind freed from passions is an impenetrable fortress—a person has no more secure place of refuge for all time.”
Quote of the day 11/09/23
From Marcus Aurelius: “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
Quote of the day 11/08/23
From Marcus Aurelius: “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
Quote of the day 11/07/23
From Marcus Aurelius: “You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can’t control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.”
Quote of the day 11/06/23
From Marcus Aurelius: “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
Quote of the day 09/19/23
From Marcus Aurelius: “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
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