Wisdom from Marcus Aurelius - by Gurwinder - The Prism

Those of you who’ve been tolerating me for a while will know that I recommend the Ancient Greek philosophy of Stoicism as a cure to many of the problems we face in the digital age.

Well, today is the birthday of Marcus Aurelius, one of the most quotable Stoics. So I thought I’d share ten of his most useful quotes, together with brief annotations of my own.

How many of the posts you recently scrolled through on social media do you remember? Not many? Then was there much difference between scrolling and being a corpse?

“Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought, for the human spirit is colored by such impressions.”

“Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.”

No one is paying as much attention to you as you are. Everyone is too busy worrying how they appear to others to worry how you appear to them.

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