Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.

Marcus Aurelius

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• We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Same

• I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Future
  • You
  • Know

• I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Family
  • Black

• Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • Time
  • Great
  • American

• I love to make a one-pot meal - think stir-fry but in the French Fricassee. I start with what takes the longest to roast and then add vegetables, fresh herbs, and starch until the meal is complete in one shot.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Love
  • Think
  • Start

• China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• I use loads of moisturising products and make sure I cleanse, tone and moisturise every day. It's just so important to always keep your skin moisturised.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Important
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • She
  • Nation
  • Agriculture

• AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.

  

  Edmund White
  • Sympathy
  • Aids
  • General

• I started feeling secure in every way once I began to accept myself the way I was. Whether that was emotional, financial or professional security, all of it came and embraced me because I embraced myself.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Feeling
  • Myself
  • Emotional

• What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Society
  • Courage

• I'm very into dark colors. I try to rock the dark against the ghost white skin as much as humanly possible.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • Rock
  • Dark
  • Colors

• And I will go on criticising Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain – and Britain and Socialism are not the same thing...It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peace-time taxation. They’ve got the usual Socialist disease – they’ve run out of other people's money.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • People
  • Time
  • Money

• Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Sex

• Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Country
  • America

• I think people do work too much. I've never been able to understand the whole 'make hay while the sun shines' thing. Either I want to work or I don't want to work.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • People
  • Work
  • Sun

• I probably can win a prize for the most ways to use a Harvard Law School degree because of all the things I'm doing.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • School
  • Law

• I think the best comedy comes from stuff that's based in reality.

  

  Pauly Shore
  • Reality
  • Comedy

• I love a good lyricist - always have. The thing that inspired me most was the different performers, like Tina Turner, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Madonna, even Janet Jackson.

  

  Jennifer Lopez
  • Good
  • Different
  • Inspired

• Love yourself and learn to love this thing called life.

  

  August Alsina
  • Life
  • Love
  • Learn

• I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.

  

  Chaim Potok
  • People
  • Serious
  • Period

• If I could, I'd be a recluse. I do want to be one. I'm trying really hard. But it's a difficult thing to pull off in this job.

  

  Chris Lowe Pet Shop Boys
  • Trying
  • Job

• Fatty, a bearded collie-terrier mix, is the kindest, cuddliest dog. And Oliver, a white golden retriever, even looks like me! My dogs have taught me to be more loving, more nurturing, and happier.

  

  Nicollette Sheridan
  • Dog
  • Pet
  • Golden

• Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.

  

  Marcus Aurelius