“Associate with people who are likely to improve you.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Not spitefully, or to show off my own self-control, but in an honest, upright way. Like Phocion (if he wasn’t just pretending).

⏳ Timeless insight by Marcus Aurelius: “You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

“No man is free who is not master of himself.” – Epictetus #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

💡 Reflection by Marcus Tullius Cicero: “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Which is why observing life for forty years is as good as a thousand. Would you really see anything new?

“I do what is mine to do; the rest doesn’t disturb me. The rest is inanimate, or has no logos, or it wanders at random and has lost the road.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations No one ever called him glib, or shameless, or pedantic. They saw him for what he was: a man tested by life, accomplished, unswayed by flattery, qualified to govern both himself and them.

“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

🧘 Insight from Seneca: “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

“Be like the cliff against which the waves break.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Remorse is annoyance at yourself for having passed up something that’s to your benefit. But if it’s to your benefit it must be good—something a truly good person would be concerned about.

🧘 Insight from Marcus Aurelius: “Disgraceful: for the soul to give up when the body is still going strong.”

“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

🗣️ In the words of Marcus Aurelius: “Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you’ll have more time and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, ‘Is this necessary?’”

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Just as all earthly creatures share one earth. Just as we all see by the same light, and breathe the same air—all of us who see and breathe.

“If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations In not turning away from people or the things that happen to them. In accepting and welcoming everything I see.

“Make haste slowly.” – Emperor Augustus #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

🌀 Perspective from Epictetus: “Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.”

“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Focus on that, and don’t let anything distract you. You’ve wandered all over and finally realized that you never found what you were after: how to live.

🗣️ In the words of Montaigne: “All things, says Plato, are produced either by nature, by fortune, or by art; the greatest and most beautiful by the one or the other of the former, the least and the most imperfect by the last.”

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

🔥 Enduring wisdom from Marcus Aurelius: “Change and flux constantly remake the world, just as the incessant progression of time remakes eternity.”

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations It’s you.’’ And show him, gently and without pointing fingers, that it’s so. That bees don’t behave like this—or any other animals with a sense of community.

“Well-being is realized by small steps, but is truly no small thing.” – Zeno #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations “Everything is just an impression.” —Monimus the Cynic. And the response is obvious enough- But the point is a useful one, if you take it for what it’s worth.

“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

🕊️ Calm wisdom from Zeno: “Well-being is realized by small steps, but is truly no small thing.”