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

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...”

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

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.”

“We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.”

“Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.”

“It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall, all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him. Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us different ways. Then tears come, and like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until perhaps the strain become too great, and we break. But King Laugh he come like the sunshine, and he ease off the strain again, and we bear to go on with our labor, what it may be.”

“You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.”