Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.

Marcus Aurelius

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• When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Up
  • You

• Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Trust
  • Just

• When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Life
  • High
  • Pretty

• The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Values

• Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Live
  • Present

• My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Life
  • Society
  • Doubt

• When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Life
  • Audience
  • Sharing

• I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage.

  

  Garcelle Beauvais
  • Life
  • Change
  • Marriage

• I have learned a great deal in my life, and DeMolay helped me to learn that character and integrity should be cornerstones in your life. As a Senior DeMolay, as a father, the best advice I could ever give would be to take the high road in life, and you will be able to build trusting relationships.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Life
  • Great
  • Character

• Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• I don't believe in 'thinking' old. Although I've transitioned through many bodies - a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult - my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Career
  • Never

• 'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • Star
  • My Life

• I'm a part of your life. You might not know it, but I am.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Life
  • Part

• Life’s better, sounder, when we don’t brood unnecessarily on horrors. As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.

  

  Elizabeth Kostova
  • Life
  • History
  • Evil

• The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted.

  

  Laurence Housman
  • Great
  • War
  • Connection

• Do you often find yourself uttering the phrase, 'I feel like I should go?' You do not need to go. You are busy that night. You are busy every night, forever.

  

  Jami Attenberg
  • Night
  • Forever

• There is a 90% failure rate for most shows. It's difficult for any show to write for the next season.

  

  Matt Passmore
  • Failure

• Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life