Quotes from Marcus Aurelius
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to live. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good person should be. Be one.
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
You have power over your mind, not outside events.
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.
The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
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.
No man is rich who does not have many friends.
Quotes from Marcus Aurelius part 2
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
You only have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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.
If anyone can prove and show to me that I think and act in error, I will gladly change it – for I seek the truth, by which no one has ever been harmed. The one who is harmed is the one who abides in deceit and ignorance.
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
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.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Look within; the secret is inside you.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
If it’s endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining.
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
Don’t go on discussing what a good person is like. Just be one.
What we do now echoes in eternity.
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
Life is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
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.
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.