Observe Always That Everything Is The Result Of A Change, And Get Used To Thinking That There Is Nothing Nature Loves So Well As To Change Existing Forms And To Make New Ones Like Them.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 3...
Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.
-- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 5...
Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond
o is the whole universe. -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ix, 19...
By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
-- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 3...
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
-- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 18...
All is ephemeral,--fame and the famous as well.
-- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 35...
No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.
-- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, xi, 10...
Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one.
Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason....
All that is harmony for thee, O Universe, is in harmony with me as well.
Nothing that comes at the right time for thee is too early or too late for me....