Marcus Aurelius

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

— Marcus Aurelius fate

Meditations 7.47

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

— Marcus Aurelius mortality

Meditations 9.35

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

— Marcus Aurelius wisdom

Meditations 4.3

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

— Marcus Aurelius mortality

Meditations 2.5

Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.

— Marcus Aurelius adversity

Meditations 2.1

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

— Marcus Aurelius freedom

Meditations 7.59

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

— Marcus Aurelius control

Meditations 4.3

The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.

— Marcus Aurelius wisdom

Meditations 5.16

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

— Marcus Aurelius wisdom

Meditations

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.

— Marcus Aurelius action

Meditations 5.1