- Memento Mori:
You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.Marcus Aurelius
- The Obstacle Is the Way:
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.Marcus Aurelius
- Four Virtues:
If, at some point in your life, you should come across anything better than justice, honesty, self-control, courage—it must be an extraordinary thing indeed—and enjoy it to the full.Marcus Aurelius
- Sympatheia:
Keep reminding yourself of the way things are connected, of their relatedness. All things are implicated in one another and in sympathy with each other. This event is the consequence of some other one. Things push and pull on each other, and breathe together, and are one.Marcus Aurelius
Revere the gods; watch over human beings. Our lives are short. The only rewards of our existence here are an unstained character and unselfish acts.Marcus Aurelius
# Quoted in The Daily Stoic ↑
The Daily Stoic is a book by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman. It has 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living. For 143 of the 366 the days they have taken sections from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Below is an overview of the sections that they have used for each day. For other days The Daily Stoic quotes from other stoic philosophers such as Epictetus, Musonius Rufus, Seneca, Zeno, and others.
- The Discipline of Perception
- January: Clarity
- January 4th: Book 9.6
- January 6th: Book 8.52
- January 14th: Book 12.19
- January 18th: Book 4.48.2
- January 20th: Book 7.2
- January 24th: Book 1.7.3
- January 25th: Book 6.16.2b-4a
- January 26th: Book 8.29
- January 28th: Book 4.38
- January 29th: Book 2.5
- January 31st: Book 5.9
- February: Passions and Emotions
- February 1st: Book 11.18.5b
- February 2nd: Book 2.2
- February 5th: Book 4.22
- February 9th: Book 6.52
- February 15th: Book 6.31
- February 16th: Book 6.26
- February 20th: Book 6.34
- February 23rd: Book 7.38
- February 25th: Book 12.27
- February 26th: Book 5.25
- March: Awareness
- March 12th: Book 7.26
- March 15th: Book 2.14
- March 16th: Book 3.9
- March 18th: Book 9.13
- March 21st: Book 4.3.1
- March 26th: Book 12.33
- March 30th: Book 9.22
- March 31th: Book 5.17
- April: Unbiased Thought
- April 1st: Book 5.16
- April 2nd: Book 10.9
- April 4th: Book 6.30
- April 6th: Book 2.1
- April 13th: Book 3.5
- April 16th: Book 7.4
- April 17th: Book 4.7
- April 19th: Book 11.37
- April 20th: Book 5.12
- April 22nd: Book 11.1-2
- April 23rd: Book 12.3
- April 24th: Book 6.13
- April 25th: Book 6.21
- April 26th: Book 6.20
- April 27th: Book 8.21
- April 29th: Book 7.47
- January: Clarity
- The Discipline of Action
- May: Right Action
- May 12th: Book 11.18.5.9a
- May 14th: Book 6.51, 59
- May 15th: Book 7.27
- May 18th: Book 8.22
- May 22nd: Book 8.22a
- May 24th: Book 5.37
- May 25th: Book 8.26
- May 26th: Book 12.4
- May 28th: Book 8.5
- May 31st: Book 11.5
- June: Problem Solving
- July: Duty
- July 1st: Book 7.15
- July 2nd: Book 6.2
- July 6th: Book 5.1
- July 8th: Book 9.37
- July 10th: Book 4.31
- July 12th: Book 8.51
- July 13th: Book 5.6
- July 15th: Book 7.73
- July 16th: Book 5.11
- July 17th: Book 11.9
- July 18th: Book 8.56
- July 19th: Book 7.63
- July 20th: Book 9.1.1
- July 21st: Book 8.12
- July 23rd: Book 8.33
- July 26th: Book 9.5
- July 27th: Book 3.6.1
- August: Pragmatism
- August 1st: Book 8.50
- August 7th: Book 5.16
- August 8th: Book 9.29 (4)
- August 9th: Book 8.49
- August 13th: Book 9.26
- August 16th: Book 8.35
- August 19th: Book 4.24
- August 22nd: Book 4.32b
- August 31st: Book 10.30
- May: Right Action
- The Discipline of Will
- September: Fortitude and Resilience
- September 14th: Book 9.40.(6)
- September 17th: Book 11.13
- September 18th: Book 7.64
- September 19th: Book 8.16
- September 20th: Book 7.61
- September 21st: Book 6.11
- September 23rd: Book 8.48
- October: Virtue and Kindness
- October 1st: Book 12.15
- October 3rd: Book 6.38
- October 4th: Book 6.54
- October 7th: Book 9.4
- October 8th: Book 5.9
- October 10th: Book 12.1
- October 11th: Book 11.15
- October 13th: Book 6.6
- October 14th: Book 5.28
- October 15th: Book 12.22
- October 18th: Book 11.15
- October 20th: Book 8.1
- October 21st: Book 6.18
- October 22nd: Book 7.52
- October 23rd: Book 5.5
- October 24th: Book 7.59
- October 28th: Book 9.9.3
- November: Acceptance / Amor Fati
- November 3rd: Book 5.8
- November 4th: Book 4.42
- November 9th: Book 4.3.4b
- November 10th: Book 4.32
- November 11th: Book 8.47
- November 12th: Book 6.41
- November 13th: Book 8.9
- November 15th: Book 5.23
- November 18th: Book 8.7
- November 20th: Book 6.37
- November 26th: Book 4.15
- November 27th: Book 5.2
- November 28th: Book 10.4
- November 29th: Book 7.43
- November 30th: Book 10.12b
- December: Meditation on Mortality
- December 2nd: Book 2.11.1
- December 6th: Book 4.17
- December 7th: Book 7.56-57
- December 12th: Book 7.49
- December 13th: Book 6.49
- December 14th: Book 4.37
- December 15th: Book 7.69
- December 18th: Book 6.24
- December 19th: Book 5.24
- December 27th: Book 6.29
- December 28th: Book 4.35
- December 31st: Book 3.14
- September: Fortitude and Resilience
# Quoted in The Obstacle Is the Way ↑
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph is the first book by Ryan Holiday about modern Stoicism. The book the part of the trilogy which also contains Ego is the Enemy and Stillness is the Key. It teaches you how to let go of the things you can't control and turn every new obstacle into an opportunity to get better, stronger, and tougher.