Marcus Aurelius Quotes

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.

Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those things, except perhaps as a joke. Every one there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes.

My religion is, to live through Love.

A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.

It is only in the giving of ourselves to others that we truly live — only with the meeting of our minds — thine and mine — do we become conscious of the divine spark each of us shares — only in sharing in our daily contacts, one with another, in our mutual hopes and fears do we find real peace. The human contribution is the essential ingredient.

Wealth is only a source of happiness when it is used to do good for others

When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth.

God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.

Fill your mind with truth; fill your heart with love; fill your life with service.

I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life.

We have to learn that service to the greater good is the greatest satisfaction. That idea is at the basis of all the great traditions dating back into history. When you get inside yourself - and you really find that deep inner peace that's rooted in love - then you can't live a life that we see being manifested in the large parts of the world right now.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

Salvation never will come through hope of reward.

Let’s not be afraid to look at everything that has brought us to where we are now and trust that we will soon see in it the guiding hand of a loving God.

More people have done good in the name of God than any other way

Every noble impulse, every unselfish expression of love, every surrender of self to something higher than self, every loyalty to an ideal, every fine courage of the soul – by doing good for good’s sake – that is spirituality. –

There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.

Blessings can come in a number of ways. The Lord doesn't give you what you want, the Lord gives you what you need.

Take care of the people, and God Almighty will take care of Himself.

Let us cultivate love and compassion, both of which give life true meaning. This is the religion I preach. It is simple. Its temple is the heart. Its teaching is love and compassion. Its moral values are loving and respecting others, whoever they may be. Whether one is a lay person or a monastic, we have no other option if we wish to survive in this world.

You can only give away what you have inside. Become an instrument of love.

Compassion is a spiritual technology.

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?