Today’s Marcus Aurelius birthday! 🎉 . Here are 119 Lessons from Meditations:.

Presence

You must reach rock bottom, have your world turned upside down, your pride hurt, working yourself to a fine grind - for you to rise to your potential like the phoenix because you’re now forced to focus on something outside of yourself to get out of the rut.

You can survive only what you immerse yourself in. Take the jump. Accept the chaos that comes with it all. It’s not as hard as you think.

Women are beautiful, cute and wholesome. Only those who don’t got the sauce suffer in their hands and become bitter misogynists talking trash about them on podcasts as if they don’t have anything better to do.

Good girls are not as fun as sluts, but if you see happiness as being at peace and working on your purpose instead of worrying about how many guys she’s been with and dealing with her emotional damage therefrom, then you’ll do well in life.

Many girls think having a career or some form of income makes them attractive to me. But I couldn’t care less because I don’t need you in a fiscal or status capacity. I just want a caring wife and mother to my children - I’d rather marry a waitress to be honest.

RT @thestoicmanual: You keep waiting to feel ready. To be motivated. That’s the mistake. Motivation flickers. It’s inconsistent, unreliable….

Lol, looks like I had Vitamin D deficiency. Supplement with Vitamin D3 60,000 IU once Weekly.

A beautiful life isn’t complicated. It’s intentional. Spend on quality items. On people who matter to you. Be alone often. Text slower. Eat slower. Think slower. Notice the wind. The trees. The flowers. Fold your clothes with care. Speak to one person like it’s the last time.

Most people sit around arguing about fairness—as if life owes them symmetry. It doesn’t. It never has. Strength comes from seeing things as they are, not how you wish they’d be. Accept the terms. Then outwork everyone who’s still whining about them.

Most people run from friction. They crumble under silence. They call inconvenience a crisis. But the world doesn’t care. It rewards the ones who can endure, who can adapt, who can carry the weight while others complain. Train for that.

If they can pull your strings, they own you. If they can rile you, they’ve won. Anger isn’t power—it’s exposure. Master yourself, and no insult, no loss, no fool can move you. That’s when you become dangerous.

Judgment isn’t the problem—poor judgment is. The wise don’t shut their eyes. They assess. They evaluate. They judge with prudence. First themselves. Then everything else. Judgment is how you stay alive. And improve.

You don’t get stronger from staying safe. You get stronger from walking into the cold, into the tension, into the part that bores you. Discomfort isn’t your enemy—it’s your instructor. Learn to listen to it. Learn to use it.

What happens is one thing. What you tell yourself about it—that’s where the suffering multiplies. Most pain is a story. Most wounds are imagined deeper than they are. Change the story, and the pain shrinks. Maybe even disappears.

If you lash out, if you always speak first, if your anger rages faster than your mind—no one respects you. Not even you. Real power is holding fire with composure. Waiting. Then choosing your counterattack strategically. That’s strength.

Pain shows up like a question: How much do you mean it? Will you back off when it hurts? Will you fold when it gets difficult? Or will you keep moving? Every struggle is a test of your threshold. Push through, and you raise it.

The world is full of thinkers. Of dreamers. Of people who almost did something. But execution is rare. Ruthless action, again and again—that’s what changes a life. The wise don’t learn more—they move with what they already know.

Readiness is a myth. You’re never fully prepared. There’s always doubt. Always fear. But the move still has to be made. Every great leap was done mid-fear, mid-chaos, mid-confusion. Jump anyway.