When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.
MARCUS AURELIUSAdapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
-
-
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
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.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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 -
Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
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.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
MARCUS AURELIUS