22 Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Anger, Fear, Pain
1. "When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
2. "To expect punishment is to suffer it; and to earn it is to expect it." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
3. "Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?" (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
4. "He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
5. "Not to display anger or other emotions. To be free of passion and yet full of love. (what marcus learned from sextus)" (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
6. "Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
7. "Pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting if you bear in mind that it has its limits, and if you add nothing to it in imagination." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
8. "Now think of the things which goad man into destroying man: they are hope, envy, hatred, fear and contempt." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
9. "Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
10. "So there is the comforting thing about extremities of pain: if you feel it too much you are bound to stop feeling it." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
11. "Who wants to live with delusion and prejudice, being unjust, undisciplined, mean and ungrateful? ‘no one.’ no bad person, then, lives the way he wants, and no bad man is free." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
12. "Show me someone untroubled with disturbing thoughts about illness, danger, death, exile or loss of reputation. By all the gods, i want to see a stoic!" (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
13. "The love of power or money or luxurious living are not the only things which are guided by popular thinking. We take our cue from people’s thinking even in the way we feel pain." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
14. "‘my brother is unfair to me.’ well then, keep up your side of the relationship; don’t concern yourself with his behaviour, only with what you must do to keep your will in tune with nature." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
15. "If you don’t want to be cantankerous, don’t feed your temper, or multiply incidents of anger. Suppress the first impulse to be angry, then begin to count the days on which you don’t get mad." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
16. "The mind maintains its own tranquillity by retiring into itself, and the ruling faculty is not made worse. But the parts that are harmed by pain, let them, if they can, give their opinion about it." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
17. "It is our own opinions that disturb us. Take away these opinions then, and resolve to dismiss your judgment about an act as if it were something grievous, and your anger is gone." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
18. "When another blames you or hates you, or when men say anything injurious about you, approach their poor souls, penetrate within, and see what kind of men they are. You will discover that there is no reason to be concerned that these men have this or that opinion about you." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet 19. "If you like doing something, do it regularly; if you don’t like doing something, make a habit of doing something different. The same goes for moral inclinations. When you get angry, you should know that you aren’t guilty of an isolated lapse, you’ve encouraged a trend and thrown fuel on the fire." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet 20. "If you shall be afraid not because you must some time cease to live, but if you shall fear never to have begun to live according to nature – then you will be a man worthy of the universe that has produced you, and you will cease to be a stranger in your native land." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet 21. "Provoked by the sight of a handsome man or a beautiful woman, you will discover within you the contrary power of self-restraint. Faced with pain, you will discover the power of endurance. If you are insulted, you will discover patience. In time, you will grow to be confident that there is not a single impression that you will not have the moral means to tolerate." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet 22. "Pain too is just a scary mask: look under it and you will see. The body sometimes suffers, but relief is never far behind. And if that isn’t good enough for you, the door stands open; otherwise put up with it. The door needs to stay open whatever the circumstances, with the result that our problems disappear." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
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