Author of quotes: Marcus Aurelius. Page 1

When some people blame you, or hate you, or speak ill of you, then come close to their soul, penetrate inside and see what they are like. You will see that you need not worry about what these people think of you.

A person scolds and insults you - don’t give in to him, don’t take the path he wants to take you on, don’t do the same thing he does.

Seek joy and peace only in moving from social action to social action, remembering God.

And it promotes the very hindrance to the cause in action and leads along the path the difficulty of the path.

The art of living is more like the art of wrestling than dancing. It requires readiness and resilience in dealing with the sudden and the unforeseen.

All we hear is opinion, not fact. Everything we see is a point of view, not a truth.

It is time not only to coordinate your breath with the outside air, but thought with the comprehensive mind. For reasonable power as diffused and prevalent everywhere for someone who is able to absorb her into himself, as the force of air able to breath.

Be of good courage and despair not, if you're not doing well enough in your actions to do all the good you would like. If you fell from the height of his, try to get up again, humbly endure the test of life and willingly, consciously coming back to their basics.

Eliminate the view that you hurt, will be eliminated and resentment. Eliminate resentment, you have done evil will eliminate evil.

If you are irritated by something, then blame not himself, but your judgment about it. And in your power to change that judgment.

How funny and ignorant one who marvels anything from what is happening in life.

Sunlight is one, though crushed by walls, mountains and countless other items. A single common essence, although it is fragmented between myriad individual and unique bodies.

Give yourself this time. Those who care more about the glory in the offspring, do not consider that the descendants of the promise to be exactly the same as the contemporaries, on whom they complain. And the descendants after death. In General, what do you care, those in other words are they about you to respond or have you an opinion?

Looking for secluded places in the village, on the seaside, in the mountains. Used to and you really miss it. But too it's gone, because you can at any time to retire into yourself. For nowhere does not find a man more calm and peaceful refuge but in your own heart, especially if that person has inside themselves, lost in contemplation of what he is in a state of complete rest. The rest I call nothing like the order of the [inside]. So always provides itself, the shelter and upgrade yourself. Let them be brief and elementary principal provisions, which, if they occur, will be sufficient to clear you of any resentment and back already not ruffling from that to which you [constantly] come back [with the thought]. After all, what annoys you? The depravity of people? Taking into consideration the idea that intelligent beings created for each other, and that tolerance is part of justice, and that they unwittingly wrong, and that how many have lived in enmity, suspicion, hatred, quarrels died [ "stretched her legs"], return to ashes, you don't have to be annoyed. And you're upset because you paid a whole? So renew [in the mind] both possibilities: either Providence or atoms, and all the other evidence, which show that the world is like the city. But you do corporal? Then take in consideration that the understanding, if it is once assembled themselves [together] and realized their strength, do not mix smoothly or fitfully moving breath* and all you hear about suffering and pleasure and as agreed. But, maybe you are tormented by the vanity? Look how fast everything is forgotten, and like a gaping abyss of infinite eternity beyond and on this side of your life, and how empty [posthumous] the echo, and how changeable and unclear in the opinion of those that seem slavoslovyaschie, and how narrow the space, which is limited to [your reputation]. Because the whole earth is a point, and how small her area [is] this place. And then, how many and what they are, slavoslovyaschie you? So do not forget about leaving this part of himself and above all do not throw and do not strain yourself, but be free and look at things as a man, as a person, as a citizen, as a mortal being. And among the most common truths to which you should apply, let them be these two. The first is that objects do not relate to the soul, but stand firmly without, confusion there is only one internal perception. The second is that everything you see, will soon undergo a transformation and will no longer exist. And [constantly ponder over] how many transformations a witness you have been. The world is changing, life is perception.