Marcus Aurelius
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
― Marcus Aurelius
“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.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Marcus Aurelius
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
― Marcus Aurelius
“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
― 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 ...”
― Marcus Aurelius
“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
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
― Marcus Aurelius
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
― Marcus Aurelius
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
― Marcus Aurelius
“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
― Marcus Aurelius
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
― Marcus Aurelius
“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
― Marcus Aurelius
“The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”
― Marcus Aurelius
“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”― Marcus Aurelius
“I have often wondered how it is that every...