Dig within. There lies the well-spring of good: ever dig, and it will ever flow. – Marcus Aurelius
Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. – Marcus Aurelius
Dig within. There lies the well-spring of good: ever dig, and it will ever flow. – Marcus Aurelius
Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. – Marcus Aurelius
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. – Marcus Aurelius
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. – Marcus Aurelius
Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the world. – Arthur Helps, “Chapter IV,” Companions of My Solitude, 1851