How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Swiftly the remembrance of all things is buried in the gulf of eternity.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“In no great while you will be no one and nowhere, and nothing that you now behold will be in existence, nor… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Spend your brief moment according to nature's law, and serenely greet the journey's end as an olive falls when it is ripe,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“That way you'll see human life for what it is. Smoke. Nothing. Especially when you recall that once things alter they cease… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Remember what Marcus Aurelius said: "Accept the things to which life binds you, and love the people with whom life brings you… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Everything of the body is a river. Everything of the soul is dream and vapour. Life is war and the abode of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“But death and life, honor and dishonor, pain and pleasure—all these things equally happen to good men and bad, being things which… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“You may leave this life at any moment: have this possibility in your mind in all that you do or say or… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Consider the past; such great changes of political supremacies. Thou mayest foresee also the things which will be. For they will certainly… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“We ought to consider not only that our life is daily wasting away and a smaller part of it is left, but… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone - those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“In the human life time is but an instant, and the substance of it a flux, and the perception dull, and the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Casting aside other things, hold to the precious few; and besides bear in mind that every man lives only the present, which… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Some things are hurrying into existence and others are hurrying out of it and of that which is coming into existence, part… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Everyman's life lies within the present, for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present - thoughtfully, justly. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
“We should remark the grace and fascination that there is even in the incidentals of Nature's processes.. When a loaf of bread,. for instance,.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
“If therefore it be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself, "I have to go to work - as a human being. What… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
