Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Beauty, Running

• Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Running, Gratitude, Philosophical

• We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Running, Horse

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1912). “The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antonius”

• Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where is all that now? Smoke, dust, legend...or not even a legend. Think of all the examples. And how trivial the things we want so passionately are.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Running, Thinking, Dust

• Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Running, Men, Atheism

  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.22, Lulu.com

• Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to consider what sort of world you are part of, and from what kind of governor of it you are descended; that you have a set period assigned you to act in, and unless you improve it to brighten and compose your thoughts, it will quickly run off with you, and be lost beyond recovery.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Running, Time, Recovery

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1887). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”

• Observe the movements of the stars as if you were running their courses with them, and let your mind constantly dwell on the changes of the elements into each other. Such imaginings wash away the filth of life on the ground.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Running, Stars, Mind

  Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.111, Penguin UK

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