The world is a living being - one nature, one soul. Keep that in mind. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Human life. Duration: momentary. Nature: changeable. Perception: dim. Condition of Body: decaying. Soul: spinning around. Fortune: unpredictable. Lasting Fame: uncertain. Sum Up:… — 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
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
“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
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If you separate from . . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future .… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Thy speech is not right, O man! if thou supposest that he that is of any worth at all, should apprehend either… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“How ridiculous and what a stranger he is who is surprised at anything which happens in life.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment. — 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
“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
Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“I do my duty: other things trouble me not; for they are either things without life, or things without reason, or things… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Observe the movements of the stars as if you were running their courses with them, and let your mind constantly dwell on… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“And the things which conduce in any way to the commodity of life, and of which fortune gives an abundant supply, he… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“As for life therefore, and death, honour and dishonour, labour and pleasure, riches and poverty, all these things happen unto men indeed,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and… — 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
So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of… — 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
