Marcus Aurelius Quotes

One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.

"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

Treat gain and loss the same.' Don't be Intimidated. Don't make a Big Deal of anything - just accept things as they come to you.

The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.

You have to try to take what life throws at you with grace and equanimity.

Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.

Once you accept, truly accept, that stuff will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about it, stress miraculously leaves your life.

There is no situation so bad that it cannot be accepted patiently, with an open, accommodating, and peaceful heart.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.

She took the sun when it came and the rain the same way.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations

Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

I'm at peace.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

Let come what comes, and accommodate yourself to that, whatever it is. If good mental images arise, that is fine. If bad mental images arise, that is fine, too. Look on all of it as equal, and make yourself comfortable with whatever happens.

I have learned to take things as they come.

You do have to be patient. Control what you can control.

Everything used to get under my skin, and now I'll just be like, 'That's life.' I'm so much more unbothered.

Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature.

I was in a garden at the Rodin Museum. For a few minutes I was alone, sitting on a bench between two long hedges of roses. Pink roses. Suddenly I felt the most powerful feeling of peace, and I had the thought that death, if it means an absorption into a reality like the one that was before me, might be all right.