Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

The infinity of past and future gapes before us - A chasm whose depths we cannot see.

The infinity of past and future gapes before us - A chasm whose depths we cannot see.

The infinity of past and future gapes before us - A chasm whose depths we cannot see.

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

You are a product of your thoughts. What you think, you become.

You are a product of your thoughts. What you think, you become.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

You are a product of your thoughts. What you think, you become.

Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.

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

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

Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and...

The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.

The universe is flux, life is opinion.

Look well into thyself there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search the...

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, ...

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly al...

Man must be arched and buttressed from within else the temple wavers to dust.

I often marvel how it is that though each man loves himself beyond all else he should yet value his...

It is not death that a man should fear 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 ...

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the n...

The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks but only a...

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish...

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for wh...

Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm an...

Without a purpose nothing should be done.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, b...

Life is a stranger's sojourn a night at an inn.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finis...

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

You should always be ready to apply these two rules of action, the first, to do nothing other than w...

It is not the actions of others which trouble us (for those actions are controlled by their governin...

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

For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.

Swiftly the remembrance of all things is buried in the gulf of eternity.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, ...

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. D...

No more roundabout discussions of what makes a good man. Be one!

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your est...

Maximus was my model for self-control, fixity of purpose, and cheerfulness under ill-health or other...

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...

And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher...

If the gods have determined about me and about the things which must happen to me, they have determi...

When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive-- to breathe, to ...

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without a...

If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change...

Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker a...

When you run up against someone else’s shamelessness, ask yourself this: Is a world without shameles...

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Human life. Duration: momentary. Nature: changeable. Perception: dim. Condition of Body: decaying. S...

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

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

III. I have often wondered how it should come to pass, that every man loving himself best, should mo...

From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unre...

Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for s...

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.

Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter i...

As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another:...

There’s nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility

The pride which is proud of want of pride is the most intolerable of all.

If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deservi...

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. D...

When you are disturbed by events and lose your serenity, quickly return to yourself and don't stay u...

Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch.

In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work o...

Salvation: to see each thing for what it is— its nature and its purpose.To do only what is right, sa...

All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.

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

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

The time of a man's life is as a point; the substance of it ever flowing, the sense obscure; and the...

That which has died falls not out of the universe. If it stays here, it also changes here, and is di...

Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.

We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the concept...

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ra...

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,bu...

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I see...

As for thy thirst after books, away with it with all speed.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Think not so much of what you lack as of what you have: but of the things that you have, select the ...

If all emotions are common coin, then what is unique to the good man?To welcome with affection what ...

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault o...

It is in your own power to maintain the beauty of your soul, or to be a decent human being.

It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in...

God give me patience, to reconcile with what I am not able to changeGive me strength to change what ...

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only ...

Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised.

You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to troub...

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