Marcus Aurelius on time management

Understand that your time has a limit set to it.  Use it, then to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius on happiness

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius on the mania of crowds

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

~ Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, Meditations

Marcus Aurelius on good fortune

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."

~Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher

Marcus Aurelius on the volatility of reality

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life!

~Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher

Marcus Aurelius and ignoring the noise

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

~Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher