1,166 Quotes by Marcus Aurelius

As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: “What is his point of reference here?” But begin with yourself: examine yourself first.

Don’t let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole.

You have to assemble your life yourself – action by action.

Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception.

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.

It doesn’t hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to.

We are the other of the other.

It’s normal to feel pain in your hands and feet, if you’re using your feet as feet and your hands as hands. And for a human being to feel stress is normal – if he’s living a normal life. And if it’s normal, how can it be bad?

Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest 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.