Quotes by Marcus Aurelius

“In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and ...”

“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.”

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

“Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.”

“No man is happy who does not think himself so.”

“Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on to say, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?' The student of na...”

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...”

“Our life is what our thoughts make 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.”

“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”

“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.”

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”

“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.”

“The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”

“Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.”

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

“Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.”

“Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?”

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”