Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

There's that thing that if you want to have any kind of lasting love, I think you have to love the whole person and not just the parts of them that you choose.

My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.

The real important things are kindness and a sense of humor. I've been fortunate to have dated and could have easily married women who have those qualities, and time and circumstances didn't work out. Timing plays a big part.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

I have learnt one thing in life: that if you love someone, you have to accept that person with his/her flaws.

There is very little love in this world, and if you give love, you will get it back.

Learning unconditional love helped me have healthier relationships, including my current marriage.

We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they're capable of very decent things: love, loyalty. When time is running out, they don't care about possessions or status. They want to put things right if they've done wrong.

We must take our friends as they are.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.

The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Anyone can be tolerant of those who are tolerant.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.