Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
Marcus AureliusImagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus.
Marcus AureliusIs any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?
Marcus AureliusIn the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.
Marcus Aurelius