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At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: I have to go to work — as a human being.
— Marcus Aurelius
On Discipline
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
— Marcus Aurelius
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony.
— Marcus Aurelius
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
No man can escape his destiny, the next inquiry being how he may best live the time that he has to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
On Purpose
Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
— Marcus Aurelius
On Discipline
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
— Marcus Aurelius
On Purpose
The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
— Marcus Aurelius
On Discipline
Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.
— Marcus Aurelius
On Discipline
Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
— Marcus Aurelius
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering…
— Marcus Aurelius
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
— Marcus Aurelius
On Discipline
Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly.
— Marcus Aurelius
On Discipline
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and th…
— Marcus Aurelius
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does him…
— Marcus Aurelius
On Focus & Distraction
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
— Marcus Aurelius
On Purpose
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
— Marcus Aurelius
On Focus & Distraction
An investment in knowledge always pays the best dividends.
— Benjamin Franklin
On Money, Plainly
Life is a balance between what we can control and what we cannot. I am learning to live between effort and surrender.
— Danielle Orner
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
— Socrates
On Purpose
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
— Socrates
On Money, Plainly
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
— Socrates
On Focus & Distraction
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
— Socrates
On Money, Plainly
I have lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
— Mark Twain
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.
— T. S. Eliot
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.
— Warren Buffett
On Money, Plainly
It's not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you…
— Robert Kiyosaki
On Money, Plainly
Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.
— Robert Kiyosaki
On Money, Plainly
Money is a good servant but a bad master.
— Francis Bacon
On Money, Plainly
Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth.
— Paul Clitheroe
On Money, Plainly
The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.
— C. JoyBell C.
On Confidence