70 result(s) for Marcus Aurelius Quotes.
"Choose not to be harmed - and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed - and you haven't been."
"Objective judgment, now at this very moment. Unselfish actions, now at this very moment. Willing acceptance, now at this very moment - of all external events. That's all you need."
"The soul of man does violence to itself, first and foremost when it becomes an abscess and, as it were, a tumor on the universe. To be vexed at anything which happens is a separation of ourselves from nature."
"You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you."
"Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness."
"Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live."
"Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life."
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"Our life is what our thoughts make it."
"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."
"Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look."
"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts."
"Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered."
"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one."
"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."
"You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."
"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too."
"You have to assemble your life yourself – action by action."
"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."
"To live a life in accordance with nature is to live the life of virtue."
"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight."
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"Receive without conceit, release without struggle."
"Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you."
"Confine yourself to the present."
"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive."
"You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
"If it is not right, do not do it. If it is not true, do not say it."
"Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to live. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good."
"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."
"Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already."
"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."
"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger."
"If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed."
"The first step: Don't be anxious. Nature controls it all."
"Do every act of your life as if it were your last."
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"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight."
"When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, remember that your defining characteristic - what defines a human being - is to work with others."
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."
"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."
"Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back."
"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."
"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."
"Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?"
"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."
"If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it."
"You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action."
"The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts."
"Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I will be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders' ignorance of what is good or evil."
"The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away."
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
"You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think."
"Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?"
"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."
"Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good and evil."
"It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own."
"The best revenge is not to be like your enemy."
"Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good."
"Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly."
"To bear with calmness what happens inevitably cancels half the pain."
"Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of my own does this remind me of?"
"How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life."
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
"Let no man any longer hear you finding fault with the court life or with your own."
"External things are not the problem. It’s your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now."
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