

“10. Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small—small as the corner of the earth in which we live it. Small as even the greatest renown, passed from mouth to mouth by short-lived stick figures, ignorant alike of themselves and those long dead.”
― Meditations
― Meditations

“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: “I have to go to work â€� as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for â€� the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?â€�
So you were born to feel “nice�? Instead of doing things and experiencing them? Don’t you see the plants, the birds, the ants and spiders and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world in order, as best they can? And you’re not willing to do your job as a human being? Why aren’t you running to do what your nature demands?
You don’t love yourself enough. Or you’d love your nature too, and what it demands of you.”
― Meditations
So you were born to feel “nice�? Instead of doing things and experiencing them? Don’t you see the plants, the birds, the ants and spiders and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world in order, as best they can? And you’re not willing to do your job as a human being? Why aren’t you running to do what your nature demands?
You don’t love yourself enough. Or you’d love your nature too, and what it demands of you.”
― Meditations

“If you set yourself to your present task along the path of true reason, with all determination, vigour,and good will: if you admit no distraction, but keep your own divinity pure and standing strong, as if you had to surrender it right now; if you grapple this to you, expecting nothing, shirking nothing, but self-content with each present action taken in accordance with nature and a heroic truthfulness in all that you say and mean - then you will lead a good life. And nobody is able to stop you.”
― Meditations
― Meditations

“Life is short. That’s all there is to say. Get what you can from the present—thoughtfully, justly. Unrestrained moderation.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
Ndree’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Ndree’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Ndree
Lists liked by Ndree