Marcus Aurelius Quotes
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
The pride which is proud of want of pride is the most intolerable of all.
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.
Do wrong to thyself, do wrong to thyself, my soul, but thou wilt no longer have the opportunity of honoring thyself.
Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?
To live each day as though one's last never flustered never apathetic never attitudinizing-here is perfection of character.
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
Swiftly the remembrance of all things is buried in the gulf of eternity.
There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay and this is common to the entire universe.
A key point to bear in mind: The value of attentiveness varies in proportion to its object. You’re better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
This is the chief thing: be not perturbed for all things are according to the nature of the universal.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: "What is his point of reference here?" But begin with yourself: examine yourself first.
The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
There’s nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility
Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.
striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to achieve calm.
Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them.
Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...
If you are distressed by anything external the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
What am I but a little flesh, a little breath, and the thinking part that rules the whole?
