On Fate

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.

— Marcus Aurelius

Meditations 6.39

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

— Marcus Aurelius

Meditations 7.47

Living virtuously is equal to living in accordance with one's experience of the things which happen by nature.

— Chrysippus

Fragment, in Diogenes Laertius 7.87

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

— Zeno of Citium

Fragment, in Diogenes Laertius 7.87

Whatever happens at all happens as it should; thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch narrowly.

— Marcus Aurelius

Meditations 4.10

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

— Marcus Aurelius

Meditations 4.10

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

— Marcus Aurelius

Meditations 10.20

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

— Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

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

— Marcus Aurelius

Meditations 9.35

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.

— Marcus Aurelius

Meditations 6.39