Commonplace Wren

A Collection of Thoughts

Overcoming

Meditations Chapter 5-20

The impediment to action advances action.

What stands in the way becomes the way.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Date Recorded: 2/20/2024

Meditations Chapter 6-19

Not to assume it's impossible because you find it hard. But to recognize that if it's humanly possible, you can do it too.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Date Recorded: 3/14/2024

Meditations Chapter 6-22

I do what is mine to do; the rest doesn’t disturb me.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Date Recorded: 3/21/2024

Meditations Chapter 6-48

When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one’s energy, that one’s modesty, another’s generosity, and so on. Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we’re practically showered with them.

It’s good to keep this in mind.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Date Recorded: 5/9/2024

Meditations Chapter 6-52

You don’t have to turn this into something. It doesn’t have to upset you. Things can’t shape our decisions by themselves.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Date Recorded: 5/14/2024

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