The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
MARCUS AURELIUSFor it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
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The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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He is so rich, he has no room to shit.
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All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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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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When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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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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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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Confine yourself to the present.
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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Do not be ashamed of help.
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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Men exist for the sake of one another.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
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The best revenge is not to do as they do.
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Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
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