Marcus Aurelius To Maximus Quotes

#1. If we don't expect more from each other, hope better for each other, and recover from the hurt we've experienced, we are surely doomed.

Bryan Stephenson

#2. It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.

Orison Swett Marden

#3. I don't actually go to that many conferences. I do that a couple of times a year. Normally, I am not recognized; people don't throw their panties at me. I'm a perfectly normal person sitting in my den just doing my job.

Linus Torvalds

#4. I only know this, that she thanks God for all her tribulations, and, above all, because her husband is dead.

Leo Tolstoy

#5. [From Old Mortality]
The woman in the picture ... was only a ghost in a frame, and a sad, pretty story from old times.

Katherine Anne Porter

#6. I'm very opinionated, very intelligent and not afraid to show that.

Katori Hall

#7. I feel like any actor should always be thinking about how to serve the story. The thing to be cautious of is trying to make too much of your 'moment,' or whatever. The story is a lot bigger than you, and you're there to help it along.

Melanie Lynskey

#8. So many people go through life without love. Wanting love. Hoping for love. Hungering for more of it than they have. Missing love when it was gone.

John Scalzi