When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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Marcus Aurelius
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About Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher. He was a member of the Nerva–Antonine dynasty, the last of the rulers later known as the Five Good Emperors and the last emperor of the Pax Romana, an age of relative peace, calm, and stability for the Roman Empire lasting from 27 BC to 180 AD. He served as Roman consul in 140, 145, and 161.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Marcus AureliusMen exist for the sake of one another.
Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
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 opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
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.
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.
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
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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.
Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
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.
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
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.
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late the good lived yesterday.
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.