John

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about John.


A Dance with Dragons
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
How To: Absurd Sc...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Learning Go: An I...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
See all 11 books that John is reading…
Loading...
Marcus Aurelius
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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 that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own - not of the same blood and birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness. Nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him. We were born to work together like feet, hands and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are unnatural.”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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

Zeno of Citium
“Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.”
Zeno of Citium

Ernest Hemingway
“But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

year in books
Joe Dunlap
125 books | 1 friend

Amanda ...
42 books | 1 friend





Polls voted on by John

Lists liked by John