To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Quote by Marcus Aurelius
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To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Click on the picture of Marcus Aurelius quote you want to see a larger version.
Marcus Aurelius Quotes
- Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
- Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
- Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
- Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
- Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
- Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
- You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
- Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'
Best Quotes
- Negative politics have always been around.
- There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
- Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
- A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.
- I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'
- Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.
- It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS.
- I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.
- I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.
- Your head is everybodies' head :)