"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
–– Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD), Roman Emperor and Stoic Philosopher
via: Commonplace Book 2024, 2025, p. 34.
"Everything is born from change."
–– Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD), Roman Emperor and Stoic Philosopher
Source: dailystoic, Instagram, November 21, 2024.
via: Sketchbook N 14, 2024, p. 39.
"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."
–– Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD), Roman Emperor and Stoic Philosopher
via: Sketchbook O 15, 2024, p. 21.
"You have power over your mind –– not outside events."
–– Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD), Roman Emperor and Stoic Philosopher
"Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to live."
–– Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD), Roman Emperor and Stoic Philosopher
Source: Marcus Aurelius. Meditations.
via: Day In & Day Out Notebook, 2020, p. 38.
"Get busy with life's purpose, toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue."
–– Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD), Roman Emperor and Stoic Philosopher
via: Sketchbook 32, 2022, p. 146.
"Our life is what our thoughts make it."
–– Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD), Roman Emperor and Stoic Philosopher
via: Sketchbook 32, 2022, p. 146.
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
–– Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD), Roman Emperor and Stoic Philosopher
via Sketchbook 28, 2015, p. 9.
"What stands in the way becomes the way."
–– Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD), Roman Emperor and Stoic Philosopher
via Book of Commonplace 2017-2020, p. 122
