#if

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#finding #insane #life #majority #object

Do every act of your life as if it were your last. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#every #last #life #were #your

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#anything #asks #beautiful #beauty #better

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#even #forward #look #matter #never

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#every #give #last #life #relief

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#good #good and evil #life #neither #only

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#every #execute #last #life #though

India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#ages #beginning #cannot #even #her

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. ↗

— Jane Austen

#different #different things #may #more #often

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. ↗

— Jane Austen

#being #i #life #my life #practice