This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one’s fate.
-Marcus Aurelius

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. True good fortune is what you make for yourself.
-Marcus Aurelius

Dig within. There lies the wellspring of good.
-Marcus Aurelius

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

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

Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their mind.
-Marcus Aurelius

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
-Marcus Aurelius

In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present – I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?
-Marcus Aurelius

Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great sea of being.
-Marcus Aurelius

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
-Marcus Aurelius