Jessica

“The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have, you cannot lose.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“The most sovereign symptom of love is a tenderness that is, at times, almost unbearable.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Nothing is more pathetic than people who run around in circles, “delving into the things that lie beneath” and conducting investigations into the souls of the people around them, never realizing that all you have to do is to be attentive to the power inside you and worship it sincerely. To worship it is to keep it from being muddied with turmoil and becoming aimless and dissatisfied with nature—divine and human. What is divine deserves our respect because it is good; what is human deserves our affection because it is like us. And our pity too, sometimes, for its inability to tell good from bad—as terrible a blindness as the kind that can’t tell white from black.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Stop drifting. You’re not going to re-read your Brief Comments, your Deeds of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, the commonplace books you saved for your old age. Sprint for the finish. Write off your hopes, and if your well-being matters to you, be your own savior while you can.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations