QUOTES by Marcus Aurelius
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The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.
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As if you had died and your life had extended only to this present moment, use the surplus that is left to you to live from this time onward according to nature.
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Keep reminding yourself of the way things are connected, of their relatedness. All things are implicated in one another and in sympathy with each other. This event is the consequence of some other one. Things push and pull on each other, and breathe together, and are one.
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The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
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It’s time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.
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Take the shortest route, the one that nature planned – to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculation and pretention.
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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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So you were born to feel “nice”? Instead of doing things and experiencing them? Don’t you see the plants, the birds, the ants and spiders and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world in order, as best they can? And you’re not willing to do your job as a human being? Why aren’t you running to do what your nature demands?
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When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance, revert at once to yourself and don’t lose the rhythm more than you can help. You’ll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it.
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Keep at it… As a blazing fire takes whatever you throw on it, and makes it light and flame.
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Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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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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Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time.
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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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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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Treat whatever happens as wholly natural; not novel or hard to deal with; but familiar and easily handled.
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In a word, if there is a god, all is well; and if chance rules, do not also be governed by it.
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Consider that before long you will be nobody and nowhere, nor will any of the things exist that you now see, nor any of those who are now living. For all things are formed by nature to change and be turned and to perish in order that other things in continuous succession may exist.
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Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
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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.
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When you have assumed these names – good, modest, truthful, rational, a man of equanimity, and magnanimous – take care that you do not change these names; and if you should lose them, quickly return to them.
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Is any man afraid of change? What can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature? And can you take a hot bath unless the wood for the fire undergoes a change? And can you be nourished unless the food undergoes a change? And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Do you not see then that for yourself also to change is just the same, and equally necessary for the universal nature?
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A man when he has done a good act, does not call out for others to come and see, but he goes on to another act, as a vine goes on to produce again the grapes in season.
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As the same fire assumes different shapes when it consumes objects differing in shape, so does the one self take the shape of every creature in whom he is present.
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For God’s sake, stop honouring externals, quit turning yourself into the tool of mere matter, or of people who can supply you or deny you those material things.
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Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go.
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Almost nothing material is needed for a happy life, for he who has understood existence.
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You’re subject to sorrow, fear, jealousy, anger and inconsistency. That’s the real reason you should admit that you are not wise.
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How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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Objective judgement, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance, now, at this very moment – of all external events. That’s all you need.
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