"Stop whatever you're doing for a moment..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.”

“Do not suffer a sudden impression to overbear your judgment.”

“Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.”

“A message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, 'I wait for you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles ripen for tears and hours ache with songs unsung.' It says, 'Come to me across the worn-out track of age, through the gates of death. For dreams fade, hopes fail, the fathered fruits of the year decay, but I am the eternal truth, and you shall meet me again and again in your voyage of life from shore to shore.”

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”

“No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.”

“So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.”

“The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.”

“Do not fear mistakes.”