"To live each day as though one's..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for man to do, assume that it must fall within your own capacity.”

“Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.”

“Thou mayest foresee... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate from the order of things now: accordingly to have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years.”

“Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.”

“Light up the fire of love inside and blaze the thoughts away.”

“No matter how long your journey appears to be, there is never more than this: one step, one breath, one moment... Now.”

“That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily.”

“There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without hoping to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion.”

“Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions had formed our character and given it support and stability.”