Cool & famous Quotes by : Marcus Aurelius

Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.

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• Inspirational

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

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• Life

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

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• Inspirational

Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

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• Inspirational

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

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• Life

Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.

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• Life

The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.

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• Wisdom

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

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• Inspirational

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

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• Inspirational

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.

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• Love

Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune".

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• Inspirational

If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.

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• Truth

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

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• Inspirational

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

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• Life

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

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• Inspirational

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

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• Inspirational

The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.

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• Time

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

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• Life

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

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• Truth

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.

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• Truth