Quotes from Marcus Aurelius

The intelligence of the universe is social.

Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.

Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.

Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!

What we do in life ripples in eternity.

Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them.

Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.

Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.

Short is the little which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain.

Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise.

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life.

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed.

What we do now echoes in eternity.

You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Remember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please.

Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think.

Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.