Robert Alvarez

“In order to act well in this world, you must first accept it. Justice, generosity, and gratitude flow from a mind that embraces all things, in harmony with our nature as rational and social beings.  Injustice, selfishness, and fear flow from a mind that complains about and fights against things as they are, straying from reason and society.”
― Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations

“In a wicked generation, might makes right, violence is praised, and virtue is slandered.” —Hesiod, Works and Days”
― Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations

“Don’t cling to possessions and other external things; cling only to the divine spark within you.”
― Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations

“You consist of body, breath (or life), and mind. Body and breath are yours to care for, while the mind is the part that does the caring. Mind is the gateway to your core self. Remember that who you are is separate from outside events and circumstances, worries about what might happen in the future, your bodily ills and pains, what others do or say, and even what you yourself have done and said in the past. Freedom consists in detaching from all these things that are not you, and letting them be whatever they will be. Then your core self will be like Empedocles’ sphere, “Perfectly round, whole, and in joyous rest reposing.”
― Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations