Marcus Aurelius Quotes

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts ... take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

A man's life is what his thoughts make it.

This is the chief thing: be not perturbed for all things are according to the nature of the universal.

Let them know a real man who lives as he was meant to live.

What pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies ... the real man.

Look well into thyself there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there.

Man must be arched and buttressed from within else the temple wavers to dust.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks but only at what he does himself to make it just and holy.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it if you have to with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden too can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

Everyman's life lies within the present for the past is spent and done with and the future is uncertain.

The sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.

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.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.