Marcus Aurelius

How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#awesome #life

Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#death #goodness #help #inspirational #death

Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created? ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#inspirational

Confine yourself to the present. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#present #yourself

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#judgement

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#education #glory #man #more #natural

Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#fulfilment #nature #organism #rightness #self-actualization

All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#dreams

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#character #death #life #mindfulness #perfection

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#toleration #truth #values #life