Meditations
Author: Marcus Aurelius
"Our life is what our thoughts make it"
"A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something."
"If, at some point in your life, you should come across anything better than justice, prudence, self-control, courage - than a mind satisfied that it has succeeded in enabling you to act rationally, and satisfied to accept what's beyond its control - if you find anything better than that, embrace it without reservations - it must be an extraordinary thing indeed - and enjoy it to the full."
"Your ability to control your thoughts - treat it with respect. It's what makes thoughtfulness possible, and affection for other people, and submission to the divine."
"No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothing can happen to you that is not required by Nature."
"Self-contraction: the mind's requirements are satisfied by doing what whe should, and by the calm it brings to us."
"Dig deep within yourself, for there is a fountain of goodness ever ready to flow if you will keep digging."
"Stick to what's in front of you - idea, action, utterance."
"You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action. And be satisfied if each one achieves its goal, as far as it can. No one can keep that from happening."
"Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beggining of time. The twining strands of fate wove both of them together: you own exixtence and the things that happen to you."
"The responsability is all yours; no one can stop you from being honest or straightforward."
"Learn to as of all questions, 'Why are they doing that?' Starting with you own."
"What is your vocation? To be a good person."
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