Marcus Aurelius Quotes on Life

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

Dwell on the beauty of life.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly.

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

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you.

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

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive.

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what is left and live it properly.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by.

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