Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Quotes

“Stop daydreaming. Monitor your desires. Forget about your hunger. Let your conscious mind decide everything, as it should.”
― David Stewart, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius: Translated Into Plain English: A Roman emperor’s diary of difficult truths to help you live a better life

“Do what you know you have to do, despite all your hypocrisy, narcissism, and dissatisfaction. Once you do that, you’ll see that you don’t have to do much at all. If you just get to work, you can live a life that flows quietly. It’s like living the life of a god, since the gods don’t need anything else from someone who knows this.”
― David Stewart, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius: Translated Into Plain English: A Roman emperor’s diary of difficult truths to help you live a better life

“Throw away all of your thoughts except for these, which will be helpful to you: Humans can live only in the present moment, which is a single, indivisible point. Everything else is either in the uncertain future or the unchangeable past. Therefore, everyone’s life is short, and the corners of the earth we all live in are small. And even if you’re famous after you die, you won’t be remembered for very long. And even then, your memory will be carried by other poor people who are also going to die very soon. And those people don’t even know themselves, let alone the famous person who died.”
― David Stewart, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius: Translated Into Plain English: A Roman emperor’s diary of difficult truths to help you live a better life