“Big Ideas” are simply the gems I’ve pulled out of my favorite books/seminars/life lessons. These ones I pulled from Meditations
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Marcus Aurelius : Soak Your Mind
Marcus Aurelius : The Opinions of Others
Marcus Aurelius : Time Is a River
Marcus Aurelius : Visions of a Lifetime
Marcus Aurelius : The Equanimity Game
Marcus Aurelius : For What Were You Made?
Marcus Aurelius : A Surplus of Time
Marcus Aurelius : Your Power
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Emerson instructed us to "Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your reading have been to you like the blast of truimpth out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul."
Following Emerson's guidance, I offer some of my favorite blasts of triumph. These quotes I draw from Meditations and other wisdom by Marcus Aurelius.
A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.
~ Marcus Aurelius Quotes
from Meditations
Self-Development Quotes on:
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Everything--a horse, a vine--is created for some duty...For what task, then, were you yourself created?
A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.
~ Marcus Aurelius Quotes
from Meditations
Motivational Quotes on:
Vision, Purpose
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
~ Marcus Aurelius Quotes
from Meditations
Inspirational Quotes on:
Wisdom
I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.
~ Marcus Aurelius Quotes
from Meditations
Famous Quotes on:
Wisdom, Truth, Persistence
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
~ Marcus Aurelius Quotes
from Meditations
Self-Development Quotes on:
Attitude, Perception, Stress, Power
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 Quotes
from Meditations
Motivational Quotes on:
Action, The Moment, Life, Power
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 Quotes
from Meditations
Inspirational Quotes on:
Action, The Moment, Life
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 Quotes
from Meditations
Famous Quotes on:
Attitude, Thoughts, Life, Habit
Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind.
~ Marcus Aurelius Quotes from Meditations