The Most Life Changing Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Marcus Aurelius has only one core work, which was actually never intended for publication: his Meditations https://store.dailystoic.com/collections/leather/products/meditations-marcus-aurelius-premium-leather-edition-gregory-hays-translation. This is not only one of greatest books ever written but perhaps the only book of its kind. It is the definitive text on self-discipline, personal ethics, humility, self-actualization and strength. In this episode, you will hear 45 of our favorite quotes from Marcus Aurelius. 📕 Pick up your own Premium Leather Edition of Meditations - Marcus Aurelius (Gregory Hays Translation) https://store.dailystoic.com/pages/meditations at the Daily Stoic Store: https://store.dailystoic.com/ https://store.dailystoic.com/pages/meditations 🎟️DAILY STOIC LIVE https://www.dailystoiclive.com/| Ryan Holiday is coming to a city near you https://www.dailystoiclive.com/! Grab tickets here https://www.dailystoiclive.com/ | https://www.dailystoiclive.com/ 🎙️AD-FREE https://dailystoic.supercast.com/| Support the podcast and go deeper into Stoicism by subscribing toThe Daily Stoic Premium https://dailystoic.supercast.com/ - unlock ad-free listening, early access, and bonus content:https://dailystoic.supercast.com/ 🎥 VIDEO EPISODES https://www.youtube.com/@DailyStoic/videos| Watch the video episodes onThe Daily Stoic YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@DailyStoic/videos:https://www.youtube.com/@DailyStoic/videos ✉️ FREE STOIC WISDOM https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail | Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email athttps://dailystoic.com/dailyemail See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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• 0:00Ryan Holiday?

  Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help you bring those four key Stoic virtues— courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom—into the real world.

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  Marcus Aurelius.

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  Concentrate every minute on doing what's in front of you.

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  You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you.

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  The present is all we have to live in—or to lose.

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  Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself, "Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?"

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  Let each thing you would do, say, or intend be like that of a dying person.

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  The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.

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  Today, I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it because it was within me, in my own perceptions, not outside.

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  You have to assemble your life yourself, action by action.

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  The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

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  The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

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  You can also commit injustice by doing nothing.

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  Receive without pride. Let go without attachment.

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  If it's endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining.

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  Have I done something for the common good? Then I share in the benefits.

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  It never ceases to amaze me. We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

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  It's unfortunate that this has happened. No, it's fortunate that this has happened, and I've remained unharmed.

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  If it is not right, do not do it. If it is not true, do not say it.

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  You always own the option of having no opinion.

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  Ask yourself at every moment, "Is this necessary?"

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  If something is humanly possible, it's attainable by you too.

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  Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what's left and live it properly.

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  Someone despises me. That's their problem.

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  Everything is born from change.

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  You have power over your mind, not outside events.

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  When jarred unavoidably by circumstance, revert at once to yourself, and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help.

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  You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do, say, and think.

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  Our life is what our thoughts make it.

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  If you don't have a consistent goal in life, you can't live it in a consistent way.

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  Get back up when you fail. Celebrate behaving like a human.

• 4:52Speaker 01

  Limit yourself to the present.

• 4:58Speaker 01

  The tranquility that comes when you stop caring what they say, or think, or do, only what you do.

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  Don't you see how much you have to offer? And yet, you still settle for less.

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  Mastery of reading and writing requires a master.

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  The struggle is great, the task divine, to gain mastery, freedom, happiness, and tranquility.

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  Do not let others hold you back.

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  A blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it.

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  To love only what happens, no greater harmony.

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  If it's humanly possible, you can do it too.

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  Choose not to be harmed, and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed, and you haven't been.

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  Don't procrastinate. Don't confuse. Don't wander. Don't be passive or aggressive. Don't be all about business.

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  Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own.

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  Practice even what seems impossible.

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  There is never any need to get worked up about things you can't control.

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  People exist for one another.

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  The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.