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  • #1
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
    Marcus Aurelius”
    Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

  • #2
    Marcus Aurelius
    “It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #3
    Seneca
    “You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

  • #4
    Seneca
    “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  • #5
    Seneca
    “If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
    Seneca the Younger

  • #6
    Seneca
    “It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

  • #7
    Seneca
    “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
    Seneca

  • #8
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #9
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Casting aside other things, hold to the precious few; and besides bear in mind that every man lives only the present, which is an indivisible point, and that all the rest of his life is either past or is uncertain. Brief is man's life and small the nook of the earth where he lives; brief, too, is the longest posthumous fame, buoyed only by a succession of poor human beings who will very soon die and who know little of themselves, much less of someone who died long ago.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #10
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #11
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #12
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #13
    Marcus Aurelius
    “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #14
    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.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #15
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #16
    Marcus Aurelius
    “How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #17
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #18
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #19
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
    Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

  • #20
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #21
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #22
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #23
    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.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #24
    Marcus Aurelius
    “If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #25
    Marcus Aurelius
    “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

  • #26
    Seneca
    “True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
    Seneca

  • #27
    Seneca
    “It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. ”
    Seneca

  • #28
    Seneca
    “They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.”
    Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

  • #29
    Seneca
    “He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.”
    Seneca

  • #30
    Seneca
    “Associate with people who are likely to improve you.”
    Seneca



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