Logo
Quote by Marcus Aurelius
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to

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

Other quotes by Marcus Aurelius

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live. – Marcus Aurelius

Category:
Love
Author
Marcus Aurelius
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
power
category

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them. – David Ogden Stiers

Category:
power

Well never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth. – Gloria Steinem

Category:
power

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land. – Sitting Bull

Category:
power

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. – Toni Morrison

Category:
power

Random Quotes

The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived. – Howard Pyle

Category:
Books

The F-word is famous, the C-word is celebrity and S-word is star, in my book. The other three words are fine – you can say those. But famous, celebrity and star, I think, are misused. – Shailene Woodley

Category:
famous

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. – Krishnamurti

Category:
Society

I think Im a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and Im not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesnt work and why. – Diane Wakoski

Category:
Poetry