The goal that you hope you will one day arrive at after a long and roundabout journey you are able to possess right now, if only you do not deny it to yourself. That is, if you can let go of the past, entrust the future to Providence and redirect the present according to justice and the sacred. To the sacred, so that you welcome what has been given to you, for Nature has brought this to you, and you to it; and to justice, in order that you may speak the truth freely and without distortion, and that you may act in accordance with what is lawful and right. Do not allow yourself to be hindered by the harmful actions, judgments, or the words of another, or by the sensations of the flesh which has formed itself around you. Let the body take care of those. But if, when you have come to the end, having let go of all other things, you honor only your guiding part and the divinity that is within you, and you do not fear ceasing to live so much as you fear never having begun to live in accordance with Nature--then you will be a man who is worth of the Cosmos that created you; and you will cease to live like a stranger in your own land, that is, surprised at unexpected everyday occurrences and wholly distracted by this and that. Marcus Aurelius
The truth is what you live through while you're looking for the truth.
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Marty Rubin
Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Don't sign your namebetween worlds, surmountthe manifold of meanings, trust the tearstain, learn to live.
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Paul Celan
To breathe is to live, but to write unimpeded is to breathe eternal.
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M. Clifford
The life of my people is to remember forever; each head granary is full. The life of your people is to forget: your thing granaries ("museums"), and not yourselves, are full.
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Alice Walker
More Quotes By Marcus Aurelius
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.
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
