When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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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.
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A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm.
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Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.
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It is not the actions of others which trouble us but rather it is our own judgments.
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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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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.
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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
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Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
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Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
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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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All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.
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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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