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.”
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Quote of the day 12/15/24
From Marcus Aurelius: “Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things that exist;Continue reading “Quote of the day 12/15/24”
Quote of the day 11/18/24
From Marcus Aurelius: “We should remember that even Nature’s inadvertence has its own charm, its own attractiveness. The way loaves of bread split open on top in the oven; the ridges are just by-products of the baking, and yet pleasing, somehow: they rouse our appetite without our knowing why.Or how ripe figs begin to burst.AndContinue reading “Quote of the day 11/18/24”
Quote of the day 07/21/24
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”
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 06/22/24
From Zhuangzi: “The Consummate Person uses his mind like a mirror, rejecting nothing, welcoming nothing: responding but not storing. Thus he can handle all things without harm.”
Quote of the day 04/10/24
From Ernest Hemingway: “Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.”
Quote of the day 03/23/24
From Cormac McCarthy: ‘Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.”
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.”
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