"Life is a campaign, a brief staying..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“It doesn't hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to.”

“Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.”

“Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy presentthoughts, that nothing shall steal into them without being well examined.”

“In this world you're either growing or you're dying so get in motion and grow.”

“We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed do not... It cannot be but that at intervals throughout society there are real men intermixed . . . as the carpenter puts one iron bar in his bannister for every five or six wooden ones.”

“Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.”

“Every lion has a time in their life when a thorn has got to them at one point.”

“What resists, persists.”

“It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.”