Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“To recover your life is within your power; simply view things again as once you viewed them, for your revival rests in… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Even if you were destined to live three thousand years, or ten times that long, nevertheless remember that no one loses any… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Soon you'll be ashes or bones. A mere name at most - and even that is just a sound, an echo. The… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Meditate upon what you ought to be in body and soul when death overtakes you; meditate on the brevity of life, and… — 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
“The body and its parts are a river, the soul a dream and mist, life is warfare and a journey far from… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“It is not death that a man should fear, but rather he should fear never beginning to live.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it - either gratefully better than or bitterly worse… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Do not fear death, but welcome it, since it too comes from nature. For just as we are young and grow old,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbours, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly.” — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
