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Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Motivational, Success
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VI, (19), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you.

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Life, Nature
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (23), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Philosophical, Dying
Marcus Aurelius (2011). “Meditations: with selected correspondence”, p.47, OUP Oxford

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Science, Power
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book III, (11), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Strength, Believe
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), Gerald Henry Rendall (1907). “Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to himself: in English”

Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Character, Dignity
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (32), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

The universe is in change, life is an opinion.

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

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Kindness, Fate

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Life, Philosophical

Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Attitude, Positivity

Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity.

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Life, Positive
Marcus Aurelius (2009). “Meditations”, p.40, Everyman's Library

Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Future, Stories

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Character, Perfection
c. AD 170-180 Meditations, bk.7, no.69 (translated by M Staniforth).

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Thinking, Looks
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IX, (29), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment; and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Men, Years

One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Solitude, Mind

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such

Marcus Aurelius
Love, Life, Family
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.60, Lulu.com

In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a thing inscrutable, and fame precarious.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Men, Soul
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1920). “Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself: In English”

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Land, Battle
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book II, (17), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

Let thine occupations be few, saith the sage, if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Sage, Occupation

Just consider, my friend, whether a pure spirit and virtue are anything other than saving your life and being saved. Perhaps we need to discard the idea of longevity and cease loving this life, instead committing these things to God and, believing that no one ever escapes destiny, to consider, with that in mind, how we may live the best possible life in the time that remains.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Believe, Destiny

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - there, if one must speak out, the real man.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Real, Self Esteem
"Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (Book X, Chapter 38), circa 170.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Philosophical, Giving
Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.25, Enhanced Media Publishing

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Art, Anger

Spend your brief moment according to nature's law, and serenely greet the journey's end as an olive falls when it is ripe, blessing the branch that bare it, and giving thanks to the tree that gave it life.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Fall, Blessing
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1920). “Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself: In English”

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