--- title: "Best Spirituality Quotes by Marcus Aurelius" description: "56 Spirituality quotes by Marcus Aurelius. Plus more from Marcus Aurelius and more Spirituality sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a29/marcus-aurelius-139_body_the-body-and-its-parts-are-a-river-the-s_185096.jpg" --- > [“The body and its parts are a river, the soul a dream and mist, life is warfare and a journey far from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/the-body-and-its-parts-are-a-river-the-soul-a-dream-and-mist-life-is/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a29/marcus-aurelius-139_body_the-body-and-its-parts-are-a-river-the-s_185096.jpg) > [Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/live-with-the-gods-and-he-does-so-who-constantly-shows-them-that-his/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f2/marcus-aurelius-139_contentment_live-with-the-gods-and-he-does-so-who-co_875513.jpg) > [Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/every-soul-the-philosopher-says-is-involuntarily-deprived-of-truth/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/396/marcus-aurelius-139_benevolence_every-soul-the-philosopher-says-is-invol_2052851.jpg) > [Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/embellish-the-soul-with-simplicity-with-prudence-and-everything-which/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e89/marcus-aurelius-139_law_embellish-the-soul-with-simplicity-with_1597807.jpg) > [Things themselves cannot touch the soul, not in the least degree, nor have they admission to the soul nor can they turn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/things-themselves-cannot-touch-the-soul-not-in-the-least-degree-nor/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/558/marcus-aurelius-139_admission_things-themselves-cannot-touch-the-soul_2491119.jpg) > [Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/your-mind-will-be-like-its-habitual-thoughts-for-the-soul-becomes-2/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee7/marcus-aurelius-139_attitude_your-mind-will-be-like-its-habitual-thou_3155314.jpg) > [“Meditate upon what you ought to be in body and soul when death overtakes you; meditate on the brevity of life, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/meditate-upon-what-you-ought-to-be-in-body-and-soul-when-death/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06a/marcus-aurelius-139_brevity-of-life_meditate-upon-what-you-ought-to-be-in-bo_160379.jpg) > [The soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these - that where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/the-soul-is-dyed-by-the-thoughts-dye-it-then-with-a-continuous-series/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9dc/marcus-aurelius-139_ifs_the-soul-is-dyed-by-the-thoughts-dye-it_1025845.jpg) > [“Let the part of your soul that leads and governs be undisturbed by the movements in the flesh, whether of pleasure or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/let-the-part-of-your-soul-that-leads-and-governs-be-undisturbed-by/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/859/marcus-aurelius-139_character_let-the-part-of-your-soul-that-leads-and_548713.jpg) > [“In the human life time is but an instant, and the substance of it a flux, and the perception dull, and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/in-the-human-life-time-is-but-an-instant-and-the-substance-of-it-a/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26b/marcus-aurelius-139_human-life_in-the-human-life-time-is-but-an-instant_2585752.jpg) > ["Sweep me up and send me where you please." For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/sweep-me-up-and-send-me-where-you-please-for-there-i-will-retain-my/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b3/marcus-aurelius-139_change_sweep-me-up-and-send-me-where-you-please_223309.jpg) > [“Human life. Duration: momentary. Nature: changeable. Perception: dim. Condition of Body: decaying. Soul: spinning around. Fortune: unpredictable. Lasting Fame: uncertain. Sum Up:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/human-life-duration-momentary-nature-changeable-perception-dim/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cfc/marcus-aurelius-139_body_human-life-duration-momentary-nature-cha_2503359.jpg) > [“But among the things readiest to hand to which you shall turn, let there be these two: One is that things do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/but-among-the-things-readiest-to-hand-to-which-you-shall-turn-let/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/638/marcus-aurelius-139_change_but-among-the-things-readiest-to-hand-to_1479116.jpg) > [“But he that honours a reasonable soul in general, as it is reasonable and naturally sociable, doth little regard anything else: and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/but-he-that-honours-a-reasonable-soul-in-general-as-it-is-reasonable/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/296/marcus-aurelius-139_god_but-he-that-honours-a-reasonable-soul-in_1681147.jpg) > [“One is that things do not touch the soul, for they are external and remain immovable; but our perturbations come only from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/one-is-that-things-do-not-touch-the-soul-for-they-are-external-and/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/599/marcus-aurelius-139_life_one-is-that-things-do-not-touch-the-soul_855384.jpg) > [“In the life of man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his senses a dim rushlight, his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/in-the-life-of-man-his-time-is-but-a-moment-his-being-an-incessant/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68a/marcus-aurelius-139_knowledge_in-the-life-of-man-his-time-is-but-a-mom_3135789.jpg) ## Other authors on Spirituality - [Dada Bhagwan 334 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/spirituality/dada-bhagwan/) - [Lailah Gifty Akita 228 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/spirituality/lailah-gifty-akita/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-bryant-mcgill-108.jpg) Bryant McGill 163 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/spirituality/bryant-mcgill/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 149 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/spirituality/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-paulo-coelho-74345.jpg) Paulo Coelho 112 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/spirituality/paulo-coelho/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-swami-vivekananda-88348.jpg) Swami Vivekananda 103 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/spirituality/swami-vivekananda/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-rumi-81702.jpg) Rumi 102 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/spirituality/rumi/) - [Matshona Dhliwayo 102 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/spirituality/matshona-dhliwayo/) - [Janvier Chouteu-Chando 93 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/spirituality/janvier-chouteu-chando/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-victor-hugo-93504.jpg) Victor Hugo 79 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/spirituality/victor-hugo/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-deepak-chopra-28468.jpg) Deepak Chopra 74 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/spirituality/deepak-chopra/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-ruben-papian-81596.jpg) Ruben Papian 73 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/spirituality/ruben-papian/) ## More by Marcus Aurelius > [A man should be upright, not kept upright.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/a-man-should-be-upright-not-kept-upright/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [Everything is mere opinion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/everything-is-mere-opinion/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/if-any-man-has-done-wrong-the-harm-is-his-own-but-perhaps-he-has-not/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/pray-look-upon-the-plants-and-birds-the-ants-spiders-and-bees-and-you/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [“We should remark the grace and fascination that there is even in the incidentals of Nature's processes.. When a loaf of bread,. for instance,.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/we-should-remark-the-grace-and-fascination-that-there-is-even-in-the/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [My true Self is free. I cannot be contained.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/my-true-self-is-free-i-cannot-be-contained/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/the-best-revenge-is-to-be-unlike-him-who-performed-the-injury/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/nothing-befalls-any-man-which-he-is-not-fitted-to-endure/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/adorn-thyself-with-simplicity-and-with-indifference-towards-the/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/let-it-be-your-constant-method-to-look-into-the-design-of-people-s/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [“Our life is a warfare, and a mere pilgrimage.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/our-life-is-a-warfare-and-a-mere-pilgrimage/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [“If therefore it be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/if-therefore-it-be-a-thing-external-that-causes-thy-grief-know-that/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/frightened-of-change-but-what-can-exist-without-it-what-s-closer-to/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/we-are-too-much-accustomed-to-attribute-to-a-single-cause-that-which/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) > [“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself, "I have to go to work - as a human being. What…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/at-dawn-when-you-have-trouble-getting-out-of-bed-tell-yourself-i-have/) [Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/spirituality/marcus-aurelius/#itemlist", "name": "Best Spirituality Quotes by Marcus Aurelius", "numberOfItems": 16, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The body and its parts are a river, the soul a dream and mist, life is warfare and a journey far from home, lasting reputation is oblivion.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Marcus Aurelius" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/the-body-and-its-parts-are-a-river-the-soul-a-dream-and-mist-life-is/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a29/marcus-aurelius-139_body_the-body-and-its-parts-are-a-river-the-s_185096.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a29/marcus-aurelius-139_body_the-body-and-its-parts-are-a-river-the-s_185096.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a29/marcus-aurelius-139_body_the-body-and-its-parts-are-a-river-the-s_185096.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The body and its parts are a river, the soul a dream and mist, life is warfare and a journey far from home…” — Marcus Aurelius", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Live with the gods. 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Duration: momentary. Nature: changeable. Perception: dim. Condition of Body: decaying. Soul: spinning around. Fortune: unpredictable. Lasting Fame: uncertain. Sum Up: The body and its parts are a river, the soul a dream and mist, life is warfare and a journey far from home, lasting reputation is oblivion.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Marcus Aurelius" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/human-life-duration-momentary-nature-changeable-perception-dim/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cfc/marcus-aurelius-139_body_human-life-duration-momentary-nature-cha_2503359.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cfc/marcus-aurelius-139_body_human-life-duration-momentary-nature-cha_2503359.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cfc/marcus-aurelius-139_body_human-life-duration-momentary-nature-cha_2503359.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Human life. Duration: momentary. Nature: changeable. 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