Ryan Holiday mentioned Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 56 times

In the course of those readings and my study of stoicism, a lot has changed. Marcus Aurelius has guided me through breakups and getting married, through being relatively young and poor and relatively older and well-off. His wisdom has helped me with getting fired and with quitting, with success and with struggles. I’ve carried him to close to a dozen countries and moved him to multiple houses. I’ve turned to him for articles and books and casual dinner conversation. The one pristine white cover is now its own shade of tan, but with every read, every time I’ve touched the book, I’ve gotten something new or been reminded of something timeless and important.

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2017-08-16 on reddit.com

perhaps one of the greatest books ever written

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It is amazing Meditations, year after year and read after read, feels both incredibly timely and incredibly timeless (there’s a reason the book has endured now for almost twenty centuries). It’s amazing that a person so famous—known to millions in his own lifetime and subject to countless books and articles and movies—could still be giving off new secrets, but indeed that’s what he’s doing.

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2022-05-25 on ryanholiday.net

I've been writing and reading about Stoicism myself now for more than 15 years, I was introduced to the works of Marcus Aurelius when I was 19 years old, and my life was changed in the way that only a book can change your life.

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I mean i've read Marcus Aurelius probably a hundred times and uh it never actually resonated with me that he was not only living in a plague but he writes about the plague several times

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Some books I leaned on often throughout this were The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, and A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy.

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2022-03-30 on ryanholiday.net

This is the book that changed my life, the most important book i've ever read the book i've read more than any other book in my entire life.

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6 Books Every Ambitious Young Person Should Read The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro. Titan by Ron Chernow. The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Cyropaedia by Xenophon

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And Stoicism, it could be said, is a philosophy about how to make better choices. This is what we see in a book like Meditations.

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2022-03-02 on ryanholiday.net

Marcus Aurelius in meditations he says he learns from one of his mentors that the key to happiness is to be free of passion but full of love

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I first read Meditations more than fifteen years ago. I’m a champion of the Gregory Hays translation but it was a treat (and an eye-opening experience) to read this new annotated edition by Robin Waterfield. Marcus, like Heraclitus, believed we never step in the same river twice. Reading a new translation of a book you’ve read (or love) is a great way to see the same ideas from a new angle…or find new ideas you missed on the previous go-arounds. The annotations (presented as footnotes) here also provide great context. If you haven’t read Marcus Aurelius or if you have…you should read this book and then read it again.

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2022-01-20 on ryanholiday.net

As always I reread Marcus Aurelius's meditations this year [...] rereading meditations once in the translation that I'm most familiar with but then reading this annotated [Robin Waterfield] edition it gave me a whole other understanding not just of this edition but Marcus in general.

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6 Books Every Ambitious Young Person Should Read The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro. Titan by Ron Chernow. The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Cyropaedia by Xenophon

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I was introduced to Meditations, I was about 19 years old this is right before i dropped out of college.

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Gregory Hays for Modern Library. Second best is the new Robin Waterfield annotated translation of Marcus, IMO.

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2021-10-12 on reddit.com

So Marcus Aurelius is the most powerful man in the world and when you read Meditations what is he talking about over and over again is how short life is, how unimportant he is, how quickly he's going to be forgotten.

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If you want a book to start here's some: The Power Broker by Robert Caro, Roman Honor Carlin Barton, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Seneca's Letters.

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I've read this book hundreds of times, literally more than 100 times.

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First I read Meditations, so I read the quote there "the impediment to action advances action which stands in the way becomes the way", so I first read the quote there then I read Pierre Hadot's The Inner Citadel and it's in this that he calls that exercise turning obstacles upside down

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I've read Meditations more than a hundred times. Each time I get something new out of it. I've read multiple translations. I've read it at night. I've read it on the road. I read it in my teens, in my 20s, now in my 30s. Each time I get something new out of it.

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Top 3: Meditations Man's Search for Meaning 48 Laws of Power

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2021-04-25 on reddit.com

In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius thanks his mentor for introducing him to the book that changed his life. One person passing along brilliant writing to another: it’s a tradition as old as time. But do you actively seek out more of these experiences?https://t.co/0NQsm2VzJq

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I think Meditations is such a fascinating book

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15 years ago I first read Gregory Hays' translation of Meditations...here he is reviewing my books in the @nyrbclassics. Life is weird and good. https://t.co/ndkdHFiEuK

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If you want a book to start here's some: The Power Broker by Robert Caro, Roman Honor by Carlin Barton, Man's Search for meaning by Viktor Frankl, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Seneca's Letters.

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Read Meditations, read a book like this, you'll actually understand more about the present by studying the past.

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What I think is the best book ever written - Marcus Aurelius's Meditations. I strongly recommend the Gregory Hays translation. It's the most lyrical the most accessible and it's just, it's just an incredible document.

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What is a book that changed your life? It's a simple question but i wouldn't be watching this video if I hadn't asked it. What's a book that changed you? One that you'd recommend to your younger self and so soon enough I found Marcus Aurelius's Meditations in my hands.

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Some books I’ve read and re-read many times: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius The Moviegoer by Walker Percy The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene The Little Girl at the Window by Totto-Chan

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What Marcus Aurelius meditations was, it's one of the few philosophical books that we have that wasn't published as a book. He wasn't... the most powerful man in the world wasn't writing what he thought, he was writing what he felt he needed to know for himself and it's only a complete accident that this work survives to us.

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When I was 19 years old, I met @drdrewpinsky and asked him for some book recommendations. These are the three he gave me...and my Amazon receipt. That question changed my life and I still have the books. Passing along the recommendation if you haven't re… https://t.co/hACtooDiZS pic.twitter.com/SjsXXw4lrG

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I remember when I was first reading Marcus Aurelius I was in college and then I had to read John Steinbeck's book East of Eden shortly thereafter and it was like whoa stoicism is in this book.

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7 Books Every Ambitious Young Person Should Read The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro. Titan by Ron Chernow. The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Cyropaedia by Xenophon The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi

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Some of the books that have changed my life and had the most influence on me: The Power Broker by Robert Caro, 48 Laws of Power, The Black Swan, life is unpredictable. Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. Four Hour Work Week - Huge! 33 Strategies of War, obviously Robert Greene's Mastery. Pia Mellody, one of my favorite authors [Facing Codependence]. This biography of John D Rockefeller, maybe you remember it from The Obstacle is the way? This book by John Boyd [...] Malcolm X the autobiography, Great Gatsby, What Makes Sammy Run. A friend of mine recommended this biography William Lee Miller on President Lincoln. It was one of the books that changed his life. Had totally changed how I thought about leadership. The War of Art, Turning Pro - two favorites from Steven Pressfield. Haruki Murakami's book on running 'What I talk about when I talk about running'. Ellison's Invisible Man. Again another book from Pia Mellody [Facing Love Addiction]. Cheryl Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things. Thích Nhất Hạnh's Taming the Tiger Within. The Brass Check - this book inspired the name of my marketing company and my book Trust Me I'm Lying. This is one of my copies of Meditations. Why Don't We Learn From History by BH Liddell Hart. Prescription For Adversity, a strange book biography of Ambrose Bierce that I like. Candide, interesting story I stole this from where I got married they had this on the shelf. I read it while I was waiting for my wife to get ready to get married and I thought hey I'm keeping this. [...] Second Mountain, this is a new addition to the shelf. Dr. Drew [The Mirror Effect] who introduced me to stoicism, Great! This is a cool book -Lincoln: the Biography of a Writer it's an analysis of Lincoln as if he was a writer. This book: Strategy by BH Liddell Hart influenced how I think about strategy.John Graves Hard Scrabble, influenced how I think about my farm. Fishing For Fun is a new book, I just read by Herbert Hoover about the philosophical benefits of fishing and yes Herbert Hoover, the president. Chesterfield's letters to his son [...] Seth Godin's the Dip, great book. Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death. Jane Jacobs also amazing. Daniel Boorstin, great. Death Be Not Proud, beautiful book. So these are some of the books, it's my life shelf. [...] Oh Austin Kleon's Steal Like An Artist, great! The Way To Love by Anthony De Mello.

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It's awesome to see people reading Marcus Aurelius and Seneca and Epictetus and I feel like I am paying forward what was done for me.

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2019-10-29 on reddit.com

I actually have the copy of Marcus that my wife--then girlfriend--bought in 2007 shortly after we met.

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2019-10-29 on reddit.com

It would have probably been in the Stoics first. When I read Marcus Aurelius in my early 20s, a lot of that went over my head. But then, as you unfortunately experience and as I have as well, you start losing people. You start understanding how time is passing and you'll never give it back. You start to have some regrets and you think about how you don't want to add to that pile. And for me all those warnings from the Stoics came back. Namely this one from Marcus: You can leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think."

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2019-10-29 on reddit.com

And what makes you think that I am opposed to people reading Marcus Aurelius and Seneca? I have probably successful recommended the Stoics--in their original form--more than any other living person. It's not even a brag, I see the Amazon Affiliate receipts.

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2019-10-29 on reddit.com

I bought these books you know I had to buy some extra books to get free shipping because Amazon Prime didn't exist and a couple days later Marcus Aurelius showed up and this book it just hit me like a ton of bricks it was just everything that I wanted

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I have this receipt here as a sort of reminder of where I was and who I was when I bought this book which was basically just a freaking kid but this passage and it's in book 5 section 20 of meditations it just hit me like a ton of bricks when I read it for the first time

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One of the most interesting parts of meditations to me is actually book 1 it's probably the most confusing to people who are not familiar with Marcus.

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In book four of Meditations Marcus Aurelius has a great passage he says it can only ruin your life if it ruins your character otherwise it cannot harm you.

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I mean I bought Marcus Aurelius meditations in 2005 or 2006 it would have been like 11 bucks on Amazon and it's literally changed not just literally changed the course of my personal life it's literally changed of course of my business

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Was introduced to Meditations, I was about 19 years old, this is right before I dropped out of college I tore this book apart It's what the economist Tyler Cowen would call a quake book. It shakes everything that I think that I know about the world.

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The most remarkable incredible book maybe ever. It was never designed for publication.

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Gregory Hays for Modern Library. Definitely.

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2018-09-29 on reddit.com

I mean a few pages into Marcus's Meditations he congratulates himself for never laying a hand on his female slaves (that is rape them) so that's a pretty good reminder that these guys lived in a different culture. Rome was a dark, violent, twisted place. We can't forget that while some aspects of their lives were shockingly identical to ours--almost as if no time has passed--others are just insanely incomprehensible. I believe the punishment for parricide in Rome (killing your parents) was they would put you in a thick leather sack with a dog, a cat, a snake and a monkey and then throw you in a river to drown and be clawed to death.

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2018-03-13 on reddit.com

I like Hays here: "The best revenge is to not be like that."

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2017-11-15 on reddit.com

The book that's had the most impact of me personally: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. It's just a magnificent and totally unique historical document. I mean, the private self-improvement notes of the most important man in the world. I've heard from lots of people I have turned this book onto and they've loved it.

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2017-08-16 on reddit.com

I did a piece last year on re-reading Marcus Aurelius for the 100th time which you might enjoy https://ryanholiday.net/100-things-learned-10-years-100-reads-marcus-aureliuss-meditations/

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2017-08-16 on reddit.com

At the time I was working for the author Tucker Max and I emailed him after the Dr. Drew exchange to see if he had read Epictetus. He told me it was amazing and that I should also read Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Marcus Aurelius, translated by Gregory Hays, arrived first. My life has not been the same since.

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2017-08-16 on reddit.com

The first few meditations are just him thanking people he like. Start with Book Two--it gets really good.

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2016-08-01 on reddit.com

That's right, though if there were a full translation of Hadot, I'd still probably recommend Hays. It's the best.

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2016-07-09 on reddit.com

@Haneylive @tferriss Don't read that Marcus Aurelius. Try this one https://t.co/WOvf9aLsce

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@cromwell too important to read as an ebook

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@matthewislam @CaseyNeistat read Marcus Aurelius next!

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