How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
More Quotes from Marcus Aurelius Antoninus:
Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies the power to persuade, there the life, there, if one must speak out, the real man.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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 Antoninus
The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be "revolutionary" but not transformative.Adrienne Rich
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Mark Twain
It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.
Dorothy Day