Do every act of your life as if it were your last. Marcus Aurelius on life
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 on love
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 on love
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 on love
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. Marcus Aurelius on men
Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live. Marcus Aurelius on men
Men exist for the sake of one another. Marcus Aurelius on men
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 on morning
The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. Marcus Aurelius on music
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. Marcus Aurelius on nature
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. Marcus Aurelius on nature
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. Marcus Aurelius on nature
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. Marcus Aurelius on nature
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them. Marcus Aurelius on nature
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. Marcus Aurelius on nature
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. Marcus Aurelius on nature
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. Marcus Aurelius on nature
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. Marcus Aurelius on power
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. Marcus Aurelius on power
To live happily is an inward power of the soul. Marcus Aurelius on power