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Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Total quotes: 9
“Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (Dover Thrift Editions)
“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...”
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Tagged: Seize The Day, Priviledge, alive, Think, Perspective
“The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Chastened: The Unexpected Story of My Year without Sex
Tagged: Sex, Music, prayer
“Life is warfare and a journey far from home.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Life
“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness
“What we do now echoes in eternity.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Philosophy, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“It is not the actions of others which trouble us (for those actions are controlled by their governing part), but rather it is our own judgments. Therefore remove those judgments and resolve to let go of your anger, and it will already be gone. How do you let go? By realizing that such actions are not shameful to you.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Psychology, Philosophy
“In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?”
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (Dover Thrift Editions)
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