External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now. Marcus Aurelius More Quotes by Marcus Aurelius More Quotes From Marcus Aurelius Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around. Marcus Aurelius timegivinglife Anger cannot be dishonest. Marcus Aurelius philosophicalhistorical Short is the little which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain. Marcus Aurelius climbingmountainlittles This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate. Marcus Aurelius fateeach-dayperfection When the sovereign spirit within us is true to nature, it stands poised and ready to adjust to every change in circumstances and to seize each new opportunity. It doesn't approach an object with prejudice or preconception, but handles each thing dispassionately before embracing it and, if necessary, finds advantage in what opposes it. It is like fire in this regard. Whereas a feeble flame might suffocate under a pile of dry sticks, a robust fire consumes everything it touches. The more objects of any kind heaped on it, the higher it rises, the hotter it burns. Marcus Aurelius flamesfireopportunity All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you. Marcus Aurelius natureinspirationallife Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie. Marcus Aurelius charactermenlying Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach. Marcus Aurelius successmotivationallife Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Marcus Aurelius menlifepast Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible. Marcus Aurelius positivityattitudelife "Sweep me up and send me where you please." For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as it can feel and act in harmony with its own nature. Is a change of place enough reason for my soul to become unhappy and worn, for me to become depressed, humbled, cowering, and afraid? Can you discover any reasons for this? Marcus Aurelius soulchangelong If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance. Marcus Aurelius ignorancedarkhome Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason. Marcus Aurelius atheismprinciplesart Be like the rocky headland on which the waves constantly break. It stands firm, and round it the seething waters are laid to rest. Marcus Aurelius wavebreakwater How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. Marcus Aurelius familyhappinesslove Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason. Marcus Aurelius judgmentassumptionopinion Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not. Marcus Aurelius gratitudegratefulthank-you Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where is all that now? Smoke, dust, legend...or not even a legend. Think of all the examples. And how trivial the things we want so passionately are. Marcus Aurelius dustrunningthinking A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something. Marcus Aurelius undonedonemen 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. Marcus Aurelius fatenaturelove
