Marcus Aurelius 35 Top Insightful Stoicism Audio Quotes Time, Reason, Pain, Thinking

“ Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.” – Marcus Aurelius

“ How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.” – Marcus Aurelius

“ Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them.” – Marcus Aurelius

“ The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.” – Marcus Aurelius

“ Confine yourself to the present.” – Marcus Aurelius

“ Life is opinion.” – Marcus Aurelius

“ All things fade and quickly turn to myth.” – Marcus Aurelius

“ Everything —a horse, a vine— is created for some duty. For what task, then, were you yourself created.” – Marcus Aurelius

“ The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.” – Marcus Aurelius

“ Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.” – Marcus Aurelius

“ Everything is only for a day—both that which remembers and that which is remembered.” – Marcus Aurelius

“ Fame after life is no better than oblivion.” – Marcus Aurelius

“ Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.” – Marcus Aurelius

“ We are the other of the other.” – Marcus Aurelius

“ All of us are creatures of a day—the rememberer and the remembered alike. All is ephemeral—both memory and the object of memory.

“ For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.” – Marcus Aurelius

“ Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.” – Marcus Aurelius

“ Whatever time you choose is the right time—not late, not early.” – Marcus Aurelius

“ Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.” – Marcus Aurelius

“ Here is a rule to remember in future when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not ‘This is misfortune,’ but ‘To bear this worthily is good fortune.” – Marcus Aurelius

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

“ 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.” – Marcus Aurelius

“ The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” – Marcus Aurelius

“ Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.” – Marcus Aurelius

“ Receive without conceit, release without struggle.” – Marcus Aurelius

“ Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.” – Marcus Aurelius

“ Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my color.” – Marcus Aurelius

“ Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.” – Marcus Aurelius

“ Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs.” – Marcus Aurelius

“ Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this ‘reality’ as you view your dreams.” – Marcus Aurelius

“ Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.” – Marcus Aurelius

“ Misfortune, nobly born, is good fortune.” – Marcus Aurelius

“ Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.” – Marcus Aurelius

“ Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been.” – Marcus Aurelius