Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Stoicism
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
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Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where is all that now? Smoke, dust, legend...or not even a legend. Think of all the examples. And how trivial the things we want so passionately are.
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Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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