
"That which has grown from the earth to the earth," — Marcus Aurelius, Book VII #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations
Marcus Aurelius is useful not because life can be controlled, but because attention can be trained. Today, separate the event you cannot command from the next choice you can make. #Philosophy #Stoicism
"How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks."
Meditations
Many of us confuse silence with peace, but a relationship without honest conflict is just a volcano waiting to erupt. Stoicism teaches the courage to face discomfort and the temperance to argue without cruelty. Fight better by aiming for understanding, not victory. #StoicCoffee #Stoicism
Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to live ... while you have life in you, while you still can, make yourself good. - Marcus Aurelius
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"Happiness is a good flow of life."
- Zeno of Citium
Hard to hear. Harder to ignore. #stoicism #innerstrength
"Nothing for me is too early nor too late, which is in due time for thee." — Marcus Aurelius, Book IV #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations
"Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then, or bear with them."
Meditations 8.59
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig. - Marcus Aurelius
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"Thou sayest, Men cannot admire the sharpness of thy wits.--Be it so: but there are many other things of which thou canst not say, I am not formed from them by nature." — Marcus Aurelius, Book V #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations
You will not be tested by the easy days. Build your character on the easy days so that the hard ones find it already standing.
Greed is satisfied by nothing, but nature finds satisfaction even in scant measure. - Seneca
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"I observed, too, that no man could ever think that he was despised by Maximus, or ever venture to think himself a better man." — Marcus Aurelius, Book I #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations