Marcus Aurelius

There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.

Snow endures but for a season, and joy comes with the morning.

Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.

How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not.

All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

Remember that even if you were to live for three thousand years, or thirty thousand, you could not lose any other life than the one you have, and there will be no other life after it. So the longest and the shortest lives are the same. The present moment is shared by all living creatures, but the time that is past is gone forever. No one can lose the past or the future, for if they don't belong to you, how can they be taken from you?

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed.

Live each day as if it be your last.

How powerful is man! He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all that God sends upon him.

Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible.

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. 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. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust.

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change.

Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.

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

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