Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Soul, Needs, Asking

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Positive Thinking, Color, Soul

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.59, Modern Library

• Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Philosophical, Inspiration, Being Alone

  c. AD 170-180 Meditations, bk.4, no.3 (translated by M Staniforth).

• When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Hate, Voice, People

  Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.138, Penguin UK

• The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Thinking

• Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Character, Soul

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.51, Sheba Blake Publishing

• Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess. But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Strong, Men, Perfect

  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.21, Enhanced Media Publishing

• Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Leadership, Talking

• 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

• Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself. For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Country, Art, Men

  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.38, Enhanced Media Publishing

• Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Soul, Use, Sun

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

• "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

• Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Peace, Soul, Mind

• To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Happiness, Laughter, Philosophical

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations (Diversion Classics)”, p.219, Diversion Books

• Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things which exist; observe too the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Soul, Perception, Causes

  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.46, Enhanced Media Publishing

• Withdraw to the untroubled quietude deep within the soul, and refresh yourself.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Soul, Deep Within

• For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility; and I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Peace, Men, Perfect

  Meditations IV.3

• You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Meditation, Soul, Littles

  "Marcus Aurelius and His Times".

• Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . .

  Marcus Aurelius

  Pain, Attitude, Thinking

• What use do I put my soul to? It is a serviceable question this, and should frequently be put to oneself. How does my ruling part stand affected? And whose soul have I now? That of a child, or a young man, or a feeble woman, or of a tyrant, of cattle or wild beasts.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Children, Men, Tyrants

  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Emperor of Rome.), Alice Zimmern (189?). “Meditations”

• The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Soul, Pure, One Thing

• If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the bodies that have been buried in it? The answers are the same. Just as on earth, with the passage of time, decaying and transmogrified corpses make way for the newly dead, so souls released into the heavens, after a season of flight, begin to break up, burn, and be absorbed back into the womb of reason, leaving room for souls just beginning to fly. This is the answer for those who believe that souls survive death.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Death, Believe, Heaven

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

• It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Giving, Soul, Doe

  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.65, Enhanced Media Publishing

• It will suffice thee to remember as concerning pain ... that the mind may, by stopping all manner of commerce and sympathy with the body, still retain its own tranquility.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Pain, Soul, Mind

• To them that ask: Where hast thou seen the Gods, or how knowest thou certainly that there be Gods, that thou art so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Respect, Art, Soul

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