More Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. It is in your power to erase this judgment about it. If anything in your own nature gives you pain, you are who hinders you from correcting your opinion.
Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
What we do in life ripples in eternity.
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.
Think of all the years passed by in which you said to yourself "I'll do it tomorrow," and how the gods have again and again granted you periods of grace of which you have not availed yourself. It is time to realize that you are a member of the Universe, that you are born of Nature itself, and to know that a limit has been set to your time. Use every moment wisely, to perceive your inner refulgence, or 'twill be gone and nevermore within your reach.
Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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.
If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.
