Marcus Aurelius Quotes

The most enduring sort of power is realizing the power within.

Strength, courage & wisdom...it's been inside of me all along.

Understanding one's own power is more interesting than someone being given something powerful.

This is the one great idea to understand that our power is already ours, our salvation is already within us.

The only power that exists is inside ourselves.

Feminine power isn't something we go out and acquire; it's already within us. It's something we become willing to experience. Something to admit we have

I've discovered that I am as strong as I thought.

I've learned about myself that I'm much stronger than I ever had any idea about myself.

I am I-I am powerful, but to what extent? I am I.

When a woman falls in love with the magnificent possibilities within herself, the forces that would limit those possibilities hold less and less sway over her.

Once you get clear on who you are, what you do, and what you have been CALLED to do, you become powerful.

The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.

Power, true power, comes from within. Not without. (Nick)

Sometimes we drug ourselves with dreams of new ideasl The head will save us. The brain alone will set us free. But there are no new ideas waiting in the wings to save us as women, as human. There are only old and forgotten ones, new combinations, extrapolations and recognitions from within ourselves--along with the renewed courage to try them out.

I have enough of life in me to make somebody jealous enough to want to knock me down. I have so much courage in me that I have the effrontery, the incredible gall to stand up. That's it. That's how you get to know who you are.

Turmoil is a call for awakening. Every challenge, great or small, is moving you to look deeper and draw forth the highest in you. You're never given a challenge beyond your ability to meet and master. You'll rise above every circumstance because you're greater than any circumstance.

I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.

We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

When you finally understand who you are, ages 6 through 60 will understand who you are. Because when they see a person that's come through all that I've come through, still standing, it's amazing.

I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art.

Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.