Quote of Marcus Aurelius - The universe is change; our life...

Biography - Marcus Aurelius:

Emperor of Rome.
Born: 121 - Died: 180
Period:
2nd century
Place of birth: Italy
Italy

Quote

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
Marcus Aurelius

Quotes about life:

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy

There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
Mahatma Gandhi

life

To live means to love, but above all, to love life.”
Blanche Pierson

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”
Mark Twain

Man arrives a novice at every age of life.”
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées

My life is my message.”
Mahatma Gandhi

life

All about life...

Quotes about change:

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Leo Tolstoy

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”
Carl Gustav Jung

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
Alan Watts

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Change alone is the constant.”
Arthur Schopenhauer - Parerga and Paralipomena

change

but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

All about change...

Quotes about the Universe:

The universe confounds me! I cannot imagine that such a ‘clock’ can exist without there being a Clockmaker.”
Voltaire - Les cabales

You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.”
Alan Watts

Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the Universe), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth.”
Galileo Galilei

Everything mystical is personal — accordingly it is an elementary variation of the universe.”
Novalis - Fragments

universe

All I did was to look at what the universe showed me.”
Claude Monet

universe

Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom can dissolve everything, an atom can save everything”
Gérard de Nerval

universe

All about the Universe...

Quotes about thought:

Great thoughts come from the heart.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
Soren Kierkegaard

Lucidity adds beauty to profound thoughts.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus

Eloquence is a painting of thought.”
Blaise Pascal

All about thought...

Marcus Aurelius also said...

Examine men's ruling principles, even those of the wise, what kind of things they avoid, and what kind they pursue.”
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

sage

While you live, while it is in your power, be good.”
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

Very little is needed to make a happy life.”
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

happiness

At any moment you choose you can retire within yourself. Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.”
Marcus Aurelius

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.”
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

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