Meditations

“Marcus Aurelius opens meditations by thanking the teacher who taught him to read attentively, and who loaned him the copy of Epictetus that shaped the rest of his life.”

“And I was like, does Marx really talk about Pompeii at all in meditations?”

“And I just thought of the baths that Mark Street was talking about in meditations, that Seneca talks about in meditations, washing off the dust of earthly life.”

“You know, all Mark's realist stuff about, you know, you try to stay present. He says that your child is sick, but not that they might die of it.”

“and in the pages of his journal, he was writing notes to himself about controlling his temper, about getting up early, about quenching his desires, his urges, about being kind to people, about working hard.”

“And so in meditations, which he's writing here in this very building, he's trying to stay humble. He's trying to remind himself what's actually important. He's trying to avoid being stained.”

“You famously at the end of the episodes you talk about some books the guest would recommend to the audience and he brings up Marcus Aurelius' Meditations.”

“There's a passage in Meditations where Marcus Aurelius is quoting Epictetus and I think pertains here to the road...”

“So I as far as I know, Marcus Aurelius never goes to space. Maybe maybe we but meditations? This is meditations.”

“And that's actually one of my favorite passages in Meditations where Marcus Aurelius is sort of like observing all these beautiful things in nature that actually aren't that beautiful.”

“One of the fundamental ironies of of Marcus Reis's meditations is you're reading uh a book that is still a bestseller 2,000 years after it was written...”

“And I mean I think also that for Marcus Aureli is the you know the fact that we can read the meditations but they are not written as public facing documents right I mean we are really seeing him there in his private moments.”

“So, the first part he he opens uh meditations with a list of acknowledgements from everything he learned from all his friends. But then he says this is a famous passage.”

“There's two jokes in meditations. One is intentional, one isn't. And I think one one is one is offensive for like uh offensive reasons and then the other is offensive I think because of what it challenges.”

“But there's this interesting passage in meditations where Marcus, he's writing to himself, obviously he's now the emperor, and he says, You have to take care not to become Caesarified.”

“I saw that you were calling Aurelius your guy. And I was thinking, "Oh my god, I do the same thing with Teddy and Franklin and Lincoln." And I don't mean to be unifferial. It's just that I've lived with him for so long like you've lived with meditations.”

“And and one of the things that I love about that is there's a scene in it where uh he starts talking about Marcus Aurelius uh Truman does and and Merl asks him a question and and he goes and he gets his copy of meditations and he shows Merl Miller the the underlinings that he's he's done in meditations.”

“And what I think is interesting which has never been desensitized for me is the one that Marcus talks about in meditations which he's cribing from epic is he says as you tuck your child in at night say to yourself they will not make it till the morning.”

“There's a lot about one of my favorite passages from meditations is where Mark Suis is talking about how he says you want to be able to get to the place and go uh this is just what I was looking for.”

“And yet, when I look at, you know, my copy of meditations, I can see all these different pens and highlighters and stuff over the years.”

“And then um um Marcus Aurelius starts off meditations with, you know, the people whose lives he's tried to learn from.”

“These things that are sort of accidental byproducts like even meditations.”

“There's a thing in meditations where Marcus realist is saying that like you adaptability is this is is the ability to say oh that's just what I was looking for right and you think about how a a person who because of a market strategy because of a career strategy because of like how they want to be they need”

“Well, there's a passage in Marxist's meditations where he goes, "Vespacian."”

“I mean, that's what's so Mark's meditations is so fascinating because here you have this guy fundamentally exempted now from all the rules of society.”

“i think about something that Mark talks about in meditations where he goes like he was a person who had these chronic health issues”

“and and and Marcus really says so it would it it would take an idiot to feel angry at any of this as if any of it lasts right”

“or when you are when you are saying hey check out this book meditations or senica or one of the stoks”

“have you read Mark's meditations uh you know what book one about I'm not this isn't this isn't a trick question fun no I I feel like I read some of it in a class where I didn't fully read it which is so embarrassing so book book one of meditations is just called debts and lessons”

“if I was there because there's this interesting passage in markus's meditations where he talks about how it's not manly to lose your temper”

“there's a line in in Mark re's meditations he's thanking one of his mentors he says for for did you say mark aelius I did”

“There's a line in Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations where he thanks one of his mentors, saying, ‘Did you say Marcus Aurelius?’”

“In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius wrote that when you tuck your child in at night, remind yourself they might not survive until morning.”

“There’s certainly a part of it, but there's that famous passage in Meditations where he says, 'The impediment to action advances action; what stands in the way becomes the way.'”

“great passage in meditations where Mark serus goes like um actually the the unmanly thing is losing your temper”

“the other side of momentto Mory like the part where Markus talks about it specifically in meditations which I've always been struck by and it struck me before I had kids and a lot more after he he says that you know try to do this as you're tucking your kids in at night”

“A lot of the lines and words in 'Meditations' are not Marcus's own, they're something he heard from a philosophy teacher or read in a book. It's important that we see it as what it was; it's kind of a commonplace book. But I get to do that part in public, and then my journaling is much more personal and”

“well Marcus re talks about that in meditations he says the best revenge is to not be like that”

“And speaking of books, just 'cause I know he's a through line in the movie, one of the characters quotes him a few times. What's your relationship with Marcus Aurelius's 'Meditations'?”

“Well, uh one of my favorite quotes in in Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, he says, you know, 'Ambition is tying your success to what other people say and do.' So, like, I want to be consul or I want to be senator, so I got to get these people to vote for me. I want to be a best-selling author, I”

“One of my favorite quotes from Marcus’s Meditations is where he states that ambition ties your success to the actions of others.”

“We could imagine that that's what Marcus Aurelius is doing in his meditations. What's weird about meditations is that it's not a book for the reader; it's a book for the writer.”

“that's what Mark cus is doing in meditations right like this is what's weird about meditations is that it's not a book for the reader it's a book for the writer”

“There's a great line in Marcus Aurelius's 'Meditations'—things aren't asking to be judged by you. What you see in entertainment television is the same; it's like how they question if LeBron James should retire—it’s his decision, not ours, and these prompts are designed to create conflict.”

“Mark said when you do someone a good turn and they receive it, don't ask for recognition.”

“when i read meditations for the first time i was 19 i was sitting in my college apartment and i was just like not only have i never read anything like this i've never even heard of anything like this”

“i like that there's a gregory hayes translation for the modern library which i think is the most like lyrical and beautiful of all of them”

“and so marcus says uh in meditations that ambition is tying your well-being to what other people say or do”

“this is my favorite translation of meditations i don't know if this is the one you read but i would read this”

“And there there's this sense that Marcelius is depressed and dark and nihilistic and that meditations is a dark book. But like I think when you read things like that, you see that he wasn't.”

“And so there's something he he's writing specifically to himself, but it somehow becomes universal. Like there's something about meditations which on the one hand should be totally unrelatable.”

“And I just like I feel like one of the formative lucky breaks of my life is that when I went on Amazon in 2006 to buy meditations that I got the Haye translation instead of some other one.”

“most of where like Marcus R talks about Justice like literally dozens of times yeah in meditations”

“I mean, they—like most of what I feel like the Stoics talk about, let's take Meditations.”

“Most of where like Marcus Aurelius talks about Justice, like literally dozens of times in Meditations, um, he also talks about doing the right thing dozens of times in Meditations and the common good.”

“Yeah, Marcus really has this quote in Meditations where he says, uh, the fruit of this life is good character and acts for the common good.”

“you know you know Marcus reis's meditations I mean they're all kind of a bunch of aphorisms”

“in meditations there's a passage where Marcus realizes doing exactly that”

“In Meditations, there's a passage where Marcus Aurelius realizes that whatever you think you want is inside of you right now. You can retreat and go on vacation inside your own soul instead of looking for external escapes.”

“I think one of the most fascinating quotes in Meditations is when Marcus says, 'You obviously love yourself more than other people.'”

“i think one something that struck me as i'm reading meditations is Marcus really thanks his philosophy teacher rusticus”

“That's one of the things I love to do with Meditations is I'll take a line that I love, and I'll go, 'I want to look at five translations.' In different eras.”

“and he becomes the person that you read about in the pages of Meditations, right?”

“That's something that Marcus Aurelius writes to himself in Meditations. He goes, how will you meet the problems of tomorrow? He says, with the same weapons you met them with today.”

“and so there's this passage in meditations where Mark who does in fact bury multiple children like he loses multiple children in a in a way that was gratuitous even in that time”

“There's a passage in Meditations where Marcus loses multiple children, an experience that was gratuitous even for that time when most people did as well.”

“The more I think about Marcus’s 'Meditations', the more in awe I am of it. In one sense, the book should be inaccessible and incomprehensible to us; you have the most powerful man in the world from an empire 2,000 years ago.”

“so I got meditations Amazon Prime didn't exist”

“you and I were both struck by the fact that Markus the most powerful man on the world he's writing this private journal to himself and he opens it with all the things that other people did for him that he learned from them it's this”

“it's funny in meditations there's a passage where Marcus Aus is like doing exactly that”

“In meditations, there's a passage where Marcus Aurelius is saying exactly that: 'I know you think you want to get away from it all, like to the country or the beach or whatever.' He says, 'But actually, whatever you need is inside of you right now.'”

“there's probably no theme that Marcus talks about in meditations more than change so I'll read you some and we'll Riff on them”

“There's probably no theme that Marcus talks about in Meditations more than change. So I'll read you some passages, and we'll riff on them.”

“I just searched change and meditations to pull them all up because I knew there's so many”

“when you read meditations is like there's very little in here that is not imminently relatable and uh has its analoges to our own time”

“Marcus Aurelius writes this book, Meditations, which are notes to himself to be better at his job and his life.”

“Marcus references the common good something like 80 times in Meditations.”

“you know there's this passage in meditation that I think hit me”

“You know, there's a passage in meditations that hit me especially as a college kid; he talks about how hard it is to wake up in the morning.”

“there's a line in towards the end of meditations which Marcus real is probably right”

“yeah do you I have the paperback of the Gregory Hayes translation which is the one that I love and uh just the more modern translation”

“I think about that obviously the book that's influenced my life the most is Marx realizes meditations and what I think is so surreal about that book is you have the most powerful person in the world”

“There's this beautiful line in the beginning of Meditations, and it's called 'Debts and Lessons'. It’s like all the things Marcus learned from people in his life, and it's really remarkable to think that he wasn't publishing it.”

“That's actually from Heraclitus who Marcus Aurelius quotes in Meditations, and the idea is, yeah, we're not only do we not step in the same river twice because the river's changing, but we're also changing.”

“There's some irony in that Marcus Aurelius's book is called 'Meditations,' but he's not doing any meditating in the sense that we understand it now. Right?”

“one of the things one of the reasons I think meditations by Mark cerealis is this totally unique philosophy book is that he wasn't writing a philosophy book he was writing notes to himself about what he thought”

“And also, I think like I've talked about this before, but one of the reasons I think Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is this totally unique philosophy book is that he wasn't writing a philosophy book. He was writing notes to himself about what he thought, and in that way the specific is actually more universal.”

“in meditations Marx real estate is ask yourself at every moment is this task essential”

“In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius asks yourself at every moment, is this task essential?”

“Well, you know, one of my favorite passages in Meditations is Marcus Aurelius clearly sitting next to someone with BO and he's like trying to decide whether he should say something or whether he just has to put up with it.”

“Sure, no, I mean that’s what’s so incredible about what Marcus manages to do in Meditations.”

“Well, that's what's so remarkable about that first uh chapter of Meditations, which I I had someone look, it's almost 10% of the book, like by word count. Is that they would have never seen it. So, it's so beautifully written and so kind and so all-encompassing.”

“there's a a line in meditations he's he's think he's thanking uh someone at the beginning of it”

“Marcus realis refers to the common good like 40 times in his meditations and is my favorite line says what's bad for the hive is bad for the bee”

“i was i was actually just rereading a new translation of marcus realist for an interview i'm doing next week”

“In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius talks about how people who love what they do wear themselves down doing it. You have to love what you do; I love writing, clearly you love football.”

“One of my favorite passages in Meditations, Marcus and what I love about Meditations is you have the most powerful man in the world writing to himself.”

“One of my favorite passages in 'Meditations' by Marcus Aurelius shows the most powerful man in the world reflecting on himself. You get this magnificent glimpse into what’s running through the head of someone so powerful.”

“so marcus realized we understand has like an extremely bad stomach ailment we don't know what it is um but there's some some evidence that he was like prescribed opium for it it was so serious right”

“In Meditations, you know, Marcus Aurelius had an extremely bad stomach ailment; we don't know what it is, but there's some evidence that he was prescribed opium for it; it was so serious.”

“and he actually writes in meditations in this time he says look don't be overwhelmed by the crush of the problem as a whole he says look at it for what it is”

“I recently read meditations again uh a couple of months ago well I listened to it in the sauna”

“I recently read meditations again uh a couple of months ago well I listened to it in the sauna”

“uh meditations by Marcus Aurelio wild book that's historical today that's sick”

“and he was striving to do better in his own personal life and that was what meditations was all about his book”

“he wrote 12 books of the meditations in coin greek as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement”

“marus aelius meditations is like still to this day one of the most interesting books on philosophy and the way a guy lives his life ever”

“marcus aurelius yeah marcus yeah marcus aurelius is uh meditations i'm in the middle of that right now”

“meditations I don't believe was ever written with the intent of it being distributed... you read meditations today like oh this is a guide book to how to live your life in a better way”

“I've been listening to Marcus aurelius's meditations in the sauna recently that's that's amazing you listen to this dude that lived 2 thousand [ __ ] years ago and he's just spitting knowledge”

“I've read them and different interpretations of them. If you want to understand 'Meditations', that's a really great place to start. Well, I just thought about the timelessness: you have the same job as them.”

“Yeah, I mean, Marcus Aurelius's book is called Meditations. It's a different form of meditation”

“Then I jumped over to Stoicism, and you know, it's very similar. I mean, Marcus Aurelius's book is called 'Meditations'. It's a different form of meditation, but the idea of sitting and observing your thoughts, whether it's like this or like that, is fundamentally the same practice.”

“Take all the spiritual and philosophical parts out of 'Meditations', and it's just a brilliant work of art and thought. Here you have this man writing private thoughts to himself that he wasn't intending to publish; it shouldn't be so good. It's so good!”

“It's like watching the greatest musician give the performance of their life in private and nobody ever knows about it. That's what 'Meditations' is. It feels like even if you just read it for the writing itself, for the prose, there's poetry in pretty much every line.”

“He notes that this is a bit of nature's inadvertence; the baker isn't intending for that to happen, but it does. I've come to understand that that's what 'Meditations' is. Marcus Aurelius is performing this private inward act of reminding himself what he believes, what's important, what he should be doing, what he needs to get better at.”

“The accidental byproduct of that is this book, 'Meditations', which you and I are reading 2,000 years later. He said that posthumous fame was impossible and worthless, and he's accidentally seeking it—not because of his accomplishments on the battlefield or his policies as emperor, but because of this private and singular act.”

“I think it's important to figure out how to read 'Meditations' because it does get misread. I was listening to a podcast recently where Mary Beard, the great classicist, talked about how she does not like Marcus and doesn't like 'Meditations'. She said it's almost like Instagram quotes or memes.”

“Um and so there's some speculation even that that's where some of the weird, kind of beautiful, mystic passages of Meditations come from is he's like on opium.”

“It is now incumbent upon me as a parent to not only do the best that I can, but make sure that the best that I am giving Traveler is the best for him, not the best for me, and what systems that I was given will work, and what systems I have the ability to— I was telling a”

“I control whether I am jealous and anxious and awful and all of these things, and to me, that is the whole of Meditations could just be that passage.”

“And it's, it's such a very stoic idea in Meditation, Marcus Aurelius says something like, 'Remember, things are not asking to be judged by you.'”

“he's like here's a book he showed it to me on Amazon and he goes it's 4.99 it's the blue Dover Thrift Edition he was like this is the George S long translations the one that'll retain kind of the king james-ness of it which you will vibe with”

“and went back to reading you know when I was a kid I read heavily you know and uh got back went back to reading poetry and Marcus aurelus and stuff and just kind of got some of my perspective back”

“And, uh, got back, went back to reading poetry and Marcus Aurelius and stuff and just kind of got some of my perspective back.”

“if you study the Book of Proverbs in the Bible okay if you study meditations by Marcus aurelus and you study these wisdom writings there's much more of the wisdom writings that are telling you things not to do then are telling you need to do this to be wise”

“One of my favorite passages in Meditations is where Marcus lists great conquerors and generals, followed by various philosophers. He concludes with Socrates, stating ultimately that Socrates is the greater because his mind was his own.”

“he says uh in the meditations that he was worried he was going to lose his temper a few times and do something that he'd regret”

“well so then if you read the meditations marcus says in it things like never do anything that requires walls or curtains”

“like when you read meditations you're like this it's not good for a person to be in this position”

“To have news from far-flung provinces, to have endless correspondence, and to feel like the weight of the world is on your shoulders—to read Meditations, you're like, 'This is not good for a person to be in this position.'”

“One interesting passage in Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' is when he says, "Today I escaped anxiety."”

“Marcus Aurelius’s line resonates: it's a shame for the mind to give up when the body is still going; as long as you're here, find a way to be useful. I appreciate your writing about Marcus Aurelius.”

“I have one of your books by the way really yeah oh that's incredible for me Daniel gave you to me for Christmas it was a youo yeah”

“But to dedicate his work to all those who supported him and mention their names—that's a practice I wanted to emulate in my own book. His life was about giving back.”

“I mean but and the thing is is it's been around years when you look at like an you know Marcus Aurelius meditations or stoic philosophy and they're talking about you know dialogue being both external in turn also the the conversations that go on inside your own head are just as important as the conversations you would have with”

“I mean but and the thing is is it's been around years when you look at like an you know Marcus Aurelius meditations or stoic philosophy and they're talking about you know dialogue being both external in turn also the the conversations that go on inside your own head are just as important as the conversations you would have with”

“it's so it's this and again like I said Marcus Aurelius meditations stoic philosophy that the conversations you have in your own head are just as powerful with other people”

“Marcus Aurelius in the Roman Empire is an example that, you know, reading Meditations is also just an insight into the mind of a man who's to himself”

“I'm reading next week tune in Marcus Aurelius meditations”

“I had always operated and this is what I learned about myself through reading, you know, meditations. Marcus Aurelius, Epictitus I'm a huge fan of.”

“I do. I actually brought my daily stroke book because um whether you like it or not, you're going to sign it. Um so I I used to have meditations um and I would read that”

“I'm reading his … meditations I just gotta I ordered a leather-bound copy of that and I think they had to actually make it in India because it took me like two months to get from Amazon”

“The Mind adapts and converts to its own purposes The obstacle to our acting what stands in the way becomes the way meditations 520 keep fighting”

“And uh it was really you know, when I was working on MTV, uh I picked up meditations and have never put it down.”

“Well, as you pointed out, I love the beginning where he is thanking people. And I love that he thanks you the gratitude and he and he thanks his mother for her compassion and generosity and the fact that like Marcus Aurelius was trying to teach himself humility and he was sleeping on the floor until she was like, "No,”

“I went and I read this past week I read the meditations.”

“And then eventually I ended up it was super cliche but ended up reading meditations by Marcus Reelis and I was like wow like this is this is incredible.”

“It's why you should read the Meditations because this is not just some dry whatever talking to himself in a culture”

“I've been thinking a lot in preparing to come here. Um thinking a lot about Marcus obviously, right?”

“Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. And I'm like, Where the hell have I been or where's that book? Get into podcasting and immediately the Stoics. I'm telling you, can't can't be can't be a podcaster and not get into the Stoics. How could you not?”

“I even reread meditations during co and even that you know it's you really got to take your time.”

“and like so there's this passage at the beginning of meditations where Mark's realistic goes like today you're going to meet people who like suck and are dishonest and shitty and all he lists all this stuff he's basically saying”

“I mean, he's amazing. I I'm I'm so glad. I can't believe that I haven't read meditations in so long.”

“I mean you read somebody like Marcus Aurelius what he's really talking about is there like he is one of the most emotionally Adept writers that I've ever come across”

“When attacked online, I remind myself I've got a healthy life and love around me, which alleviates my anger. The best revenge is living well, as Marcus suggested.”

“That's always what I've liked the most about Marcus Aurelius' meditations; he's talking to himself, but if he was really just talking to himself, would he have written it down?”

“i'm in the middle of uh reading uh meditations while i'm listening to the audiobook of meditations by marcus”

“marcus aurelius book meditations is really really interesting because it's almost 2 000 years old”

“marcus aurelius is uh meditations i'm in the middle of that right now”

“And I get my copy of Meditations; it comes from Amazon. I had to wait a couple of days for it to arrive 'cause Prime didn't exist yet, you know? And I read this passage in Meditations from Marcus Aurelius: let me find it.”

“Part of it, but Meditations, I don't believe, was ever written with the intent of it being distributed.”

“I think one thing that struck me as I'm reading Meditations is Marcus Aurelius thanks his philosophy teacher, Rusticus, who gives him his copy of Epictetus's lectures.”

“The practice of stepping back and thinking can provide insights that profoundly impact one's life, as seen by the timeless relevance of Aurelius' 'Meditations'.”

“The Stoics talk a ton about discipline, courage, wisdom; Marcus writes Meditations, which are notes to himself to be better at his job and in life.”

“Yeah, there's a passage in Marcus's Meditations where he says, you know, as you tuck your child in at night, you should say to yourself, they will not survive to the morning. And he's like meditating on the loss that the most precious thing in the world to you…”

“There's a line towards the end of meditations, which Marcus Aurelius probably wrote as he's getting close to death.”

“I think about that; obviously, the book that's influenced my life the most is Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. What I think is so surreal about that book is you have the most powerful person in the world, 2000 years ago, writing a journal to himself, never intending it to be published.”

“but it's funny in meditations there's a passage where Marcus to realize is like doing exactly that he's like I know you think you want to get away from it all yeah like in the country or the beach or whatever and he's like but actually whatever you need is inside of you right now it's like you can Retreat”

“there's some irony in that Marx realis's book is called meditations but he's not doing any meditating in the sense that we understand it now”

“was it Marcus Aurelius who said the whole universe is change in life itself is but what we deem it I think it was”

“Marcus Aurelius refers to the common good like 40 times in his meditations. My favorite line says what’s bad for the hive is bad for the bee; to me, if businesses could think that way, and I try to think about that with my business—do I pay people a fair wage?”

“i want to take my i'll get some marcus aurelius thing it's like you know i guess the trick to life is figuring out what's in our control and what's not”

“other things that people are sort of bowing themselves at the church of and i think is a good thing is the church of marcus aurelius copies of meditation sold out at the beginning of 2020”

“copies of marcus aurelius's meditations and paperback were sold out at the beginning of 2020.”

“Copies of marcus aurelius's meditations and paperback were sold out at the beginning of 2020.”

“like marcus aurelius i would say one big fan of meditations um you know stoic philosophy”

“or Marcus Aurelius meditations and and Senecas writings yeah that's that's amazed”

“people are running on your prices are running out of copies or Marcus Aurelius meditations and and Senecas writings”

“what if I have one book If it's meditations Or if if if it's some ancient Chinese text if if we're looking at some Lau or something you think well that one thing answers everything”

“We often want to read a hundred books when we should master three, maybe Jobs's biography by Walter Isaacson, or 'The Prophet' by Kahlil Gibran, or 'Meditations' by Marcus Aurelius, one of my favorite books. Minimizing our focus can be incredibly powerful; build your life around a few crucial things.”

“Yeah, it's a little sad because you read about—and the only reason I even know about these folks like Emperor Nero or whatever is because of Ryan Holiday writing books about stoicism, you know and in that having a resurgence.”

“uh Marcus Aurelius the Roman Emperor got a little closer with his meditations because he did talk about things like here's how I'd like to uh I'd like to develop these character traits and cultivate these things in my life”

“shredkowski says the Mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting what stands in the way becomes the way meditations 520 Keep fighting man that's really good all right I'm a big Marcus Aurelius fan”

“if you Marcus Aurelius meditations have existed for thousands of years Why do you think people still read them”

“when I wrote The Daily Stoke 8 years ago I had this crazy idea that I would just keep it going the book was 366 meditations”

“Cuz Soul boom. Soul boom. Cuz I mean I just want to read this one thing.”

“Oh, and she also brought me a present, "War and Peace" by Tolstoy, and "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius. It doesn't get better than that.”

“and then of course there were plenty of what you might call self-help treatises during Greek and Roman times yeah Marcus Aurelius right this goes all the way back and maybe to snob in you would feel better reading meditations or reading the essays of Michelle de montane then reading Dale Carnegie”

“and now let me leave you with some words from marcus aurelius the art of living is more like wrestling than dancing”

“uh i like the i wrote this down uh the marcus aurelius quote Love the people with whom fate brings you together and do so with all of your heart”

“marcus aurelius would be one and i would say the second you know this is pathetic and i'm sorry but you know dennis bergkamp is my all-time hero”

“when you read anything that's ancient but classic Marcus Aurelius meditations or you know whatever it might be you realize that the for the problems that you attribute as side effects of the 21st century are just inbuilt parts of our nature that everyone's been fighting with for forever”

“and then meditation is yeah”