Life Quotes Quote by Marcus Aurelius, Meditations — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“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.”

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”

“Casting aside other things, hold to the precious few; and besides bear in mind that every man lives only the present, which is an indivisible point, and that all the rest of his life is either past or is uncertain. Brief is man's life and small the nook of the earth where he lives; brief, too, is the longest posthumous fame, buoyed only by a succession of poor human beings who will very soon die and who know little of themselves, much less of someone who died long ago.”

“Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.”

“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.”

“Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.”

“Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.”

“Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.”

“If you're gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you've crossed it first.”

“The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.”

“The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.”