The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The world is a living being - one nature, one soul. Keep that in mind. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding. — 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
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
Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life. — 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
It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give… — 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
Discard everything except these few truths: we can live only in the present moment, in this brief now; all the rest of… — 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
Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“He who dreads death, dreads either an extinction of all sense, or dreads a different sort of sensation. If all sense is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Each of us lives only now, in this brief instant. The rest of our life has been lived already, or is impossible… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will… — 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
“The time of a man's life is as a point; the substance of it ever flowing, the sense obscure; and the whole… — 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
“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
“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
In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight,… — 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
Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion. — 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
