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

Quote by Marcus Aurelius

Topics: Love Quotes, Privilege Quotes, Thinking Quotes

For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me...

For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me...

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself....

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself....

All is ephemeral, - fame and the famous as well

All is ephemeral, - fame and the famous as well

In all my writings my aim has been to spare sinners and assail sin

In all my writings my aim has been to spare sinners and assail sin

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective,...

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective,...

Fortune gives many too much, but none enough

Fortune gives many too much, but none enough

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go...

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go...

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is...

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is...

Be content to seem what you really are

Be content to seem what you really are

As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So...

As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So...

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all...

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all...

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

It is false to say that you are a vicious man, Zoilus; you are not...

It is false to say that you are a vicious man, Zoilus; you are not...

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says...

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says...

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting

Art is long, and Time is fleeting