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More Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
What we do in life ripples in eternity.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.
Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception
Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus.
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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.
