Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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.

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

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 for which I was brought into the world?

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.

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.

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

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.

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

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

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.

For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.