Quotes from Marcus Aurelius

Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

Life is a campaign, a brief staying in a strange region.

Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.

Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust.

Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

The universe is in change, life is an opinion.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception.

A person's life is what their thoughts make it.

Don't let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole.

No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.

All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.