Marcus Aurelius

To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it.

Marcus Aurelius

To change your mind and to follow him who sets you right is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.

Marcus Aurelius

To pursue the unattainable is insanity, yet the thoughtless can never refrain from doing so.

Marcus Aurelius

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

Marcus Aurelius

Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.

Marcus Aurelius

Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.

Marcus Aurelius

We are born for synergy, just like the feet, just like the hands, just like the eyes, just like the rows of upper and lower teeth. Working against each other is unnatural, and being annoyed and turning one’s back is counterproductive.

Marcus Aurelius

What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.

Marcus Aurelius

Whatever time you choose is the right time. Not late, not early.

Marcus Aurelius

When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance, revert at once to yourself, and don’t lose the rhythm more than you can help. You’ll have a better group of harmony if you keep on going back to it.

Marcus Aurelius