Causes Quote by 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…

— Marcus Aurelius

“If thou art pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs thee, but thy own judgment about it. And it is…

— Marcus Aurelius

Happy thou that learnest from another's griefs, not to subject thyself to the same.

— Tibullus

“Grief can be inordinately selfish.”

— Harlan Coben

In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

What thou avoidest suffering thyself seek not to impose on others.

— Epictetus

“Thou may be sure that he who will tell thee of thy faults is thy friend, for he ventures thy dislike and doth hazard…

— Walter Raleigh

“One of all the terrible effects of grief is that we interpret its absence as egotism.”

— Fredrik Backman

“You shall find it greatly mitigates the sorrow of bereavements, if before bereavement you shall have learned to surrender every day all the things…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

Let not therefore thy heart be troubled, neither let it fear. Trust in me, and put thy confidence in my mercy. When thou thinkest…

— Thomas a Kempis

Thou hast death in thy house, and dost bewaile anothers.

— George Herbert