Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Life
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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
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Your life is an expression of all your thoughts.
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Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
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And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
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In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a thing inscrutable, and fame precarious.
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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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Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.
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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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Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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Spend your brief moment according to nature's law, and serenely greet the journey's end as an olive falls when it is ripe, blessing the branch that bare it, and giving thanks to the tree that gave it life.
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Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity.
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Each day provides its own gifts.
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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.
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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
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Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - there, if one must speak out, the real man.
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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.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it. Do every act of your life as if it were your last. In a word, your life is short. You must make the most of the present with the aid of reason and justice. Since it is possible that you may be quitting life this very moment, govern every act and thought accordingly.
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Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.
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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
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A person's life is dyed with the color of his imagination.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.
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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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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.
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