“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks.”

Emperor · 121 – 180

Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, author of the Meditations.

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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive.

Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.

Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.