Marcus Aurelius

Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small – small as the corner of the earth in which we live it.

Marcus Aurelius

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

Marcus Aurelius

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

Marcus Aurelius

Failing to understand the workings of one’s own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness.

Marcus Aurelius

Give full attention and devotion to each act.

Marcus Aurelius

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

Marcus Aurelius

If you are distressed by anything, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it.

Marcus Aurelius

If you’re honest and straightforward and mean well, it should show in your eyes. It should be unmistakable.

Marcus Aurelius

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

Marcus Aurelius

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Marcus Aurelius