"No one can keep you from living..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher.”

“No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such”

“Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise.”

“... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement and connection of the rocks of which the mountains are composed, its cartilage the tufa, and its blood the springs of water.”

“Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is thenatural of each, his constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise, engaging and lovely; we cannot be satiated with knowing it, and about it; and it is this which the conversation with Nature cherishes and guards.”

“The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night, Ya-honk! he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation: The pert may suppose it meaningless, but I listen closer, I find its purpose and place up there toward the November sky.”

“When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.”

“If you are not willing to pay the price for freedom, you don't deserve freedom.”

“The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.”