Turn off all notifications; you should control when you want information, not the reverse.

If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.

When we are all mind, things can get rigid.

To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.

Happiness consists in the consciousness of a life in which the highest Virtue is actively manifested.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.