When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.
MARCUS AURELIUSLook to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
-
-
A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
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.
MARCUS AURELIUS