Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Inspirational
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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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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.
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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres.
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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.
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Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity.
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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.
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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.
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Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
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If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.
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We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
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Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!
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Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
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Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.
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Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.
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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?
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Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
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Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.
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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.
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
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