The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom
Think of the whole universe of matter and how small your share. Think about the expanse of time and how brief — almost momentary — the part marked for you. Think of the workings of fate and how infinitesimal your role.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 5.24 —
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November 5th: A higher power
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
This is the very thing which makes up the virtue of the happy person and a well-flowing life — when the affairs of life are in every way turned to the harmony between the individual divine spirit and the will of the director of the universe. — Chrysippus, Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, 7.1.88
Keep this thought handy when you fee a fit of rage coming on- it isn't manly to be enraged. Rather, gentleness and civility are more human, and therefore manlier. A real man doesn't give way to anger and discontent, and such a person has strength, courage and endurance- unlike the angry and complaining. The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the close he is to strength.
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 11.18.5b
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