~ Marcus Aurelius Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

[MysteRy]

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts ... take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

[MysteRy]

In the life of a man his time is but a moment...his sense a dim rushlight. All that is body is as coursing waters...all that is of the soul as dreams and vapors.

[MysteRy]

If you are distressed by anything external the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

[MysteRy]

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.

[MysteRy]

Observe constantly that all things take place by change and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe love nothing so much as to change. The Universe is change.

[MysteRy]

Time is a sort of river of passing events and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place and this too will be swept away.

[MysteRy]

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden too can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

[MysteRy]

Time is like a river of fleeting events and its current is strong; as soon as something comes into sight it is swept past us and something else takes its place and that too will be swept away.

[MysteRy]

To them that ask where have you seen the Gods or how do you know for certain there are Gods that you are so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I ever seen my own soul and yet I respect and honor it.

[MysteRy]

If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing fearing nothing but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.