To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character. — 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
Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature. — 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
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Don't let your imagination to be crushed by life as a whole. Don't try to pictures everything bad that could possibly happen.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Your principles have life in them. For how can they perish, unless the ideas that correspond to them are extinguished? And it… — 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
Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the… — 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
From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no… — 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
“Remember how long you have been putting off these things, and how often you have received an opportunity from the gods, and… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
“that that life which any the longest liver, or the shortest liver parts with, is for length and duration the very same,… — 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
“You have embarked, made the voyage, and come to shore; get out. If indeed to another life, there is no want of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant:… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without… — 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
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
“How ridiculous and what a stranger he is who is surprised at anything which happens in life.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus… — 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
Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Since it is possible that you might depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last. — 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
Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Short is the little time which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain. — 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
