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Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Life, Change
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (3), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

Why should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place without it? What can be more pleasing or more suitable to universal nature? Can you take your bath without the firewood undergoing a change? Can you eat without the food undergoing a change? And can anything useful be done without change? Don't you see that for you to change is just the same, and is equally necessary for universal nature?

Marcus Aurelius
Change, Done, Baths

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Marcus Aurelius
Change, Philosophical, Grief

Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.

Marcus Aurelius
Change, Life Changing, Understanding
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1963). “The Meditations”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

Observe constantly that all things take place by change.

Marcus Aurelius
Change, Things Change, All Things
Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.42, Sheba Blake Publishing

There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.

Marcus Aurelius
Change, Decay, Common

The universe is in change, life is an opinion.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Change, Opinion
Marcus Aurelius (2009). “Meditations”, p.19, Everyman's Library

Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things and again other things... in order that the world may be ever new.

Marcus Aurelius
Change, Order, World
Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.70, Sheba Blake Publishing

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. 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. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Marcus Aurelius
Change, Things Change, Universe
"Meditations".

Does a man shrink from change? Why, what can come into being save by change?

Marcus Aurelius
Change, Shrinks
"Complete Works of Marcus Aurelius".

"Sweep me up and send me where you please." For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as it can feel and act in harmony with its own nature. Is a change of place enough reason for my soul to become unhappy and worn, for me to become depressed, humbled, cowering, and afraid? Can you discover any reasons for this?

Marcus Aurelius
Change, Long, Soul

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.

Marcus Aurelius
Love, Inspirational, Change
Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.20, Lulu.com

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it

Marcus Aurelius
Change, Spiritual, Whole

Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?

Marcus Aurelius
Change, Men, Universal
Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.38, Lulu.com

All things change, and you yourself are constantly wasting away. So also is the universe.

Marcus Aurelius
Change, Things Change, All Things

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