Marcus Aurelius Quotes - Page 3

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch.

The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.

That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.

Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.

We should remark the grace and fascination that there is even in the incidentals of Nature's processes.. When a loaf of bread,. for instance,. is in the oven,. crack appear in it here and there; and these flaws,. though not intended in the baking,. have a rightness of their own,. and sharpen the appetite..

Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams.

How good it is, when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that this is the dead body of a fish, this the dead body of a bird or pig.

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.

What am I but a little flesh, a little breath, and the thinking part that rules the whole?

Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them.

There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.