Advice, often stoic, on how to live a better life by adjusting how we see ourselves in our lives.

5 lanterns

Does the light of a lamp shine and keep its glow until its fuel is spent?: Why shouldn't your truth, justice, and self-control shine until you are extinguished?

—Marcus Aurelius

Put an end once for all to this discussion of what a good man should be, and be one.: Sometimes searching for a more accurate way of being is just another way of delaying. Be.

—Marcus Aurelius

The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.:

—Marcus Aurelius

God did not intend my happiness to rest with someone else.: I am the master of my own happiness.

—Marcus Aurelius

Often injustice lies in what you aren't doing, not only in what you are doing.:

—Marcus Aurelius