More quotes by Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ..."
"No man is happy who does not think himself so."
"We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first."
"If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance."
"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too."