Life Quotes by Marcus Aurelius

“Live every day as if they last.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Life is opinion.”

— Marcus Aurelius

What we do now echoes in eternity.

— Marcus Aurelius

The world is a living being - one nature, one soul. Keep that in mind.

— Marcus Aurelius

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Marcus Aurelius

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

— Marcus Aurelius

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

— Marcus Aurelius

“Don't be overheard complaining ... not even to yourself.”

— Marcus Aurelius

What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.

— Marcus Aurelius

The universe is change; life is your perception of it

— Marcus Aurelius

“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.

— Marcus Aurelius

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.

— Marcus Aurelius

It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think.

— Marcus Aurelius

Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

— Marcus Aurelius

Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do…

— Marcus Aurelius

It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give…

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Marcus Aurelius

One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will…

— Marcus Aurelius

Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then…

— Marcus Aurelius

“Meditate upon what you ought to be in body and soul when death overtakes you; meditate on the brevity of life, and…

— Marcus Aurelius

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it - either gratefully better than or bitterly worse…

— Marcus Aurelius

It's normal to feel pain in your hands and feet, if you're using your feet as feet and your hands as hands.…

— Marcus Aurelius

Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the…

— Marcus Aurelius

Since you are an integral part of a social system, let every act of yours contribute to the harmonization of social life.…

— Marcus Aurelius

“Soon you'll be ashes or bones. A mere name at most - and even that is just a sound, an echo. The…

— Marcus Aurelius

“that that life which any the longest liver, or the shortest liver parts with, is for length and duration the very same,…

— Marcus Aurelius

Observe and contemplate on the hidden things of life: how a man's seed is but the beginning, it takes others to bring…

— Marcus Aurelius

So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of…

— Marcus Aurelius

“You have embarked, made the voyage, and come to shore; get out. If indeed to another life, there is no want of…

— Marcus Aurelius

“One is that things do not touch the soul, for they are external and remain immovable; but our perturbations come only from…

— Marcus Aurelius

Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant:…

— Marcus Aurelius

“Real good luck would be to abandon life without ever encountering dishonesty, or hypocrisy, or self-indulgence, or pride. But the “next best…

— Marcus Aurelius

“Consider individuals, survey men in general; there is none whose life does not look forward to the morrow. "What harm is there…

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Marcus Aurelius

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

— Marcus Aurelius

The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.

— Marcus Aurelius

You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.

— Marcus Aurelius

“Remember this, that very little is needed to make a happy life.”

— Marcus Aurelius