"Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius
Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?
More by Marcus Aurelius
More on Life Cycle
“Amidst the rush of worldly comings and goings, I observe how all endings become beginnings”
“Love begins like a triolet and ends like a college yell.”
“This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was full of Sap, full of Leaves, and full of Boughs: But now, in vain does the busy Art of Man pretend to vie with Nature, by tying that withered Bundle of Twigs to its sapless Trunk: It is at best but the Reverse of what it was; a Tree turned upside down, the Branches on the Earth, and the Root in the Air.”
More on Change
“I'm just trying to change my life because I'm not above killing any drug dealer for money.”
“It doesn't occur to me at this moment to say more; another time, perhaps tomorrow, I may have more to say, but always the same thing and about the same, for only gypsies, robber gangs and swindlers follow the adage that where a person has once been he is never to go again.”
“Nowhere is it ordained that history moves in a straight line.”