Stoic Virtue

When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

The journey is the thing.

Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.

Nothing endures but change.

Self-knowledge reveals to the soul that its natural motion is not, if uninterrupted, in a straight line, but circular, as around some inner object, about a center, the point to which it owes its origin.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

The First, then, should be compared to light, the next [Spirit or Intellect] to the sun, and the third [soul] to the celestial body of the moon, which gets its light from the sun.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.

Self-knowledge reveals to the soul that its natural motion is not, if uninterrupted, in a straight line, but circular, as around some inner object, about a center, the point to which it owes its origin.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

We can't learn without pain.