/lit/ - Literature

The book is all about self control, which reminds me of my devouted Muslim grand mother, which is why I love it. 8/10 comfy and good read

>Im thankful for my mommy
>Im thankful for my daddy
>Im thankful for my friendos

Steve/Steven

>>9949046
Meditations
>>9949064
Frodo Smyth

>>9897969
>>9899802
It's just this, What is the problem?

Tom, Tommy, Thomas..

Marcus Aurelius gave us everything we need to lift ourselves up and improve ourselves back in the day. Everything since the Meditations has been an unnecessary, superfluous waste of money.

>>9728555
Looks like a fat american slob version of Marcus Aurelius

What version of this book should I get?

Inb4 don't even read it

Fuck you for shilling this book /fitlit/.
I will never listen to your recommendations again.

This is literally the most bluepilled garbage I ever read.

>Dude life is meaningless, don't try and get rich or anything, just enjoy being poor and miserable, it's just the will of the gods bro
>Don't like, try and better yourself or anything
>Don't pursue power or glory....but it's OK when I do it because I'm a Roman emperor and you're just plebeian scum lmao

>The emptiness of all those applauding hands.
The people who praise us—how capricious they are, how
arbitrary.

>Now they see you as a beast, a monkey. But in a week
they’ll think you’re a god—if you rediscover your beliefs
and honor the logos.

Why did he hate Christians, /lit/?

I ended up beyond help but I'd like to share some books that helped me pull myself as "together" as possible.

Feel free to throw in your suggestions as well, better if you could describe the significance of the book and who it helped you too, as opposed to just posting an image.

I'll start:
First off, let's not forget that pic related is basically his diary desu. In so far as you're like me and prefer encouragement about life that refers to empirical data and proven techniques, you're not going to find much of substance here (some of the more metaphysical suggestions here will raise a lot of eyebrows too, especially if you haven't read any other Stoics). Really though, sometimes you just want raw motivation, and Marcus's self-motivation can give you exactly that. Allow me to share the passage from the Meditations I like the most:

>The sun appears to pour itself down, and indeed its light pours in all direction, but the stream does not run out. This pouring is linear extension: that is why its beams are called rays, because they radiate in extended lines. You can see what a ray is if you observe the sun's light entering a dark room through a narrow opening. It extends in a straight line and impacts, so to speak, on any solid body in its path which blocks passage through the air on the other side: it settles there and does not slip off or fall.

>>8690175
>what is penguin classics

Also, how does the meme philosophy of niet, kierkegaard and wittenstein compare to this book in terms of leading a "better" life and other stuff