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More Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception
You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.
When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.
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.
There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.
Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?
Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Think of all the years passed by in which you said to yourself "I'll do it tomorrow," and how the gods have again and again granted you periods of grace of which you have not availed yourself. It is time to realize that you are a member of the Universe, that you are born of Nature itself, and to know that a limit has been set to your time. Use every moment wisely, to perceive your inner refulgence, or 'twill be gone and nevermore within your reach.
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
