What Marcus Aurelius told himself, for your 5-year-old
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Four lines drawn from the notes an emperor wrote to himself, in words a 5-year-old can follow.
What the sheet says
Hard to get up
“Even an emperor had to tell himself to get up.”
Someone was mean
“Tell me what happened. You don’t have to be mean back.”
Something is in the way
“The hard bit is part of the way.”
Others are grumpy
“Some people will be grumpy today. You can still be kind.”
Say them in a calm moment
We put the wording on this sheet into plain English ourselves. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 5.1, 6.6, 5.20, 2.1.