Quotes from Marcus Aurelius
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
All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
- Marcus Aurelius
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
- Marcus Aurelius
Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.
- Marcus Aurelius
Think not so much of what you lack as of what you have: but of the things that you have, select the best, and then reflect on how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.
- Marcus Aurelius
I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby sparing me from an absorbing interest in these subjects.
- Marcus Aurelius
Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity.
- Marcus Aurelius
And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Do you not see then that for yourself also to change is just the same, and equally necessary for the universal nature?
- Marcus Aurelius
Live every day as if they last.
- Marcus Aurelius
A man's life is what his thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
- Marcus Aurelius
Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized.
- Marcus Aurelius