Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.

Marcus Aurelius

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• Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Hope
  • Death
  • Faith

• I want to do stories that inspire people.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • People
  • Want
  • Inspire

• It's fun to be an actor and dress up, but I'm happy being me and just loving accepting my personal style.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Happy

• He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Light
  • Never

• Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Bad
  • Positive
  • Try

• I hate being in Los Angeles when it's football season. I want to be in New York. It just doesn't feel right if I'm away.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Hate
  • Football
  • New York

• I've got the sort of personality that requires me to find some sort of release, and for me, it's performing.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Me
  • Personality
  • Find

• I lived somewhat of a nomadic life, even when I lived in Ohio. We spent time in rural areas, in suburban areas, never really city areas. We rode four-wheelers. We had pigs and ferrets. And creeks. We had a creek in my backyard. It was like 'Huckleberry Finn.'

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Life
  • Time
  • City

• Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Important
  • Think
  • Comedy

• I love the energy of an independent film set. No one is there for the money. Everyone is there 'cause they really want to be there. It makes all the difference in the world. It's without ego and agenda, other than just wanting to fulfill a creative dream.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Dream
  • Energy
  • Creative

• My rule of writing is that no one can do what you can do, so jealousy or competitiveness are pointless. I am always happy when one of my sisters has a book published that I get to read.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Happy

• Maybe it will take a woman to clean up the House.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Up
  • House

• Dear father, I have received several letters from Mary and yourself, but as I have to deal with nineteen-twentieths of those received, have neglected to answer them.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Father

• Together, we came to understand how we beg men to express feelings, but then when men do express feelings, we call it sexism, male chauvinism, or backlash.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Together

• Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • America
  • Blonde

• Ask the locals. They can point you in the direction of the area's shopping district where you'll be sure to find something different and unique that pleases you.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Different
  • Unique
  • Shopping

• Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. That's the end of the interview.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Art

• Reject cynicism. Reject certitude. And don't be a jerk. Be a good guy.

  

  Jake Sullivan
  • Good
  • Guy

• My definition, a definition in the drill books from the time that General Von Steuben wrote the regulations for General George Washington, the definition of the object of military training is success in battle... It wouldn't be any sense to have a military organization on the backs of the American taxpayers with any other definition.

  

  Chesty Puller
  • Time
  • American
  • Success

• Eating among the French certainly affected me. After a few years here, I gave up most of my selective food habits.

  

  Pamela Druckerman
  • Up
  • Food

• I'm a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it's only in facing those parts of ourselves that we can truly grow, and I think that's true of all of the characters I've played, certainly in the past few years.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • True
  • Past
  • Lies

• 'Everything is already there in....' How does it come about that an arrow points? Doesn't it seem to carry in it something besides itself? - 'No, not the dead line on paper; only the psychical thing, the meaning, can do that.' - That is both true and false. The arrow points only in the application that a living being makes of it.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • True

• I think if you start to think too much about things that are completely out of control, it will just drive you crazy as an actor.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Control
  • Crazy

• Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.

  

  Marcus Aurelius