Marcus Aurelius Quotes

I think it's okay to be afraid, but it's not okay to let it rule your life.

Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little".

Make the decision and say, "I'm not letting that worry in. I'm done being upset when my plans don't work out. I'm not letting that stress in." Negative thoughts will still come to your mind, but you don't have to let them into your spirit.

I don't let the hate go to my heart, and I don't let the praise go to my head.

When you allow a person's words to upset you, you're giving away your power.

A free spirit must be able to surmount anxiety time after time.

Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.

I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.

I've learned to let things roll off my back.

There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.

As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

You learn to not take things personally and to just let it roll off of you.

Keep a meter on your fear. Fear can cripple you.

I can only control what I can control at the end of the day, so some things you just can't allow to take your head the other way, some things happen for a reason.

Accept what you cannot control.

If I do feel scared I deliberately challenge myself not to feel scared.

Fear mustn't take control of us.

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.

The essential idea of Stoicism in my interpretation is, you don't control the world around you, you control how you respond. At 19, that's very empowering.

I'm learning not to try to block everything.

We should master fear, instead of cultivating it.

The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.