Marcus Aelius Aurelius Famous Quotes
The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
"Remember this, very little is needed to make a happy life."
"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."
"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."
"To them that ask, where have you seen the gods, or how do you know for certain there are gods, that you are so devout in their worship I answer Neither have I ever seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it."
"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight."
A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.
"I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others."
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
"Whatever may befall thee, it was preordained for thee from everlasting."
Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind for the soul is dyed by the thoughts."
"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."
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
"Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good."
"Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man."
How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
"Think on this doctrine,--that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it."
Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.
"Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains. . .But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree. . .when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself."
"Life itself is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil."
"Every man's life lies within the present for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain."
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
"I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will."
The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.
"A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark."
Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius Quotations
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
John Tillotson
"I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me."
Althea Gibson
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Max Ehrmann
"Success is achieved and maintained by those who TRY, And keep TRYING. Where there is nothing to lose by TRYING, And a great deal to gain if SUCCESSFUL, By all means, TRY. DO IT NOW"
W Clement Stone
"Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk about freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered they were not Indians at all, but dirty clothes hampers."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited."
Anthony Powell
"Golf is like a love affair if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun. If you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart."
Arnold Daly
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Albert Einstein
"A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them."
Elbert Hubbard
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert Einstein