Marcus Aurelius

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love."

- Marcus Aurelius

"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."

- Marcus Aurelius

"You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"When you rise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love …"

- Marcus Aurelius

"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."

- Marcus Aurelius

"The mirror is a tool for self-reflection and self-improvement."

- Marcus Aurelius

"When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love…"

- Marcus Aurelius

"You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"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."

- Marcus Aurelius

"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."

- Marcus Aurelius

"You have the power on your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

- Marcus Aurelius

"The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts."

- Marcus Aurelius

"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."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Look well into yourself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if you will always look there."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be One."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Think of the life you have lived until now as over and, as a dead man, see what’s left as a bonus and live it according to Nature. Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own, for what could be more fitting?"

- Marcus Aurelius

"It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own."

- Marcus Aurelius

"In your actions, don’t procrastinate. In your conversations, don’t confuse. In your thoughts, don’t wander. In your soul, don’t be passive or aggressive. In your life, don’t be all about business."

- Marcus Aurelius

"If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it."

- Marcus Aurelius

"The best revenge is not to be like your enemy."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Choose not to be harmed — and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed — and you haven’t been."

- Marcus Aurelius

"It’s time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet."

- Marcus Aurelius

"External things are not the problem. It’s your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now."

- Marcus Aurelius

"If anyone can refute me—show me I’m making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective—I’ll gladly change. It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone."

- Marcus Aurelius

"You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself."

- Marcus Aurelius

"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear."

- Marcus Aurelius

"The best way to avenge yourself is to not be like that."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it."

- 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

"The best answer to anger is silence."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Confine yourself to the present."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Each day provides its own gifts."

- Marcus Aurelius

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."

- Marcus Aurelius

"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injustice."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."

- Marcus Aurelius

"You have power over your mind – not external events. Realize this and you will have strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"You shouldn’t give circumstances the power to rouse anger, for they don’t care at all."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Choose not to be harmed, and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed, and you haven’t been."

- Marcus Aurelius

"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Each Day provides its own Gifts"

- Marcus Aurelius

"Live Happily"

- Marcus Aurelius

"Remember this, that very little is needed to make a happy life."

- Marcus Aurelius

"That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees"

- Marcus Aurelius

"That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees."

- Marcus Aurelius

"We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne."

- Marcus Aurelius

"The nearer a man comes to a calm mind the closer he is to strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Every hour be firmly resolved…to accomplish the work at hand with fitting and unaffected dignity, goodwill, freedom, justice."

- Marcus Aurelius

""Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.""

- Marcus Aurelius

"Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already."

- Marcus Aurelius

"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts."

- Marcus Aurelius

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one."

- Marcus Aurelius

"You have power over your mind– not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Dig deep within yourself, for there is a fountain of goodness ever ready to flow if you will keep digging."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise."

- Marcus Aurelius

"We were born for cooperation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of upper and lower teeth. So to work in opposition to one another is against nature: and anger or rejection is opposition."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look."

- Marcus Aurelius

"You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: “I have to go to work — as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for — the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?”"

- Marcus Aurelius

"Concentrate every minute like a Roman—like a man—on doing what’s in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness, tenderly, willingly, with justice. And on freeing yourself from all other distractions. Yes, you can — if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable."

- Marcus Aurelius

"If it is endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."

- Marcus Aurelius

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Love is not about possession, love is about appreciation."

- Marcus Aurelius

"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."

- Marcus Aurelius

"The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Every morning brings new potential, but only if you make the most of it with gratitude."

- Marcus Aurelius

"The universe is transformation: life is opinion."

- Marcus Aurelius

"The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too."

- Marcus Aurelius

"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."

- Marcus Aurelius

"All things are linked with one another, and this oneness is sacred; there is nothing that is not interconnected with everything else. For things are interdependent, and they combine to form this universal order. There is only one universe made up of all things, and one creator who pervades them; there is one substance and one law, namely, common reason in all thinking creatures, and all truth is one--if, as we believe, there is only one path of perfection for all beings who share the same mind."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Remember this: very little is needed to make a happy life."

- 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

"You can also commit injustice by doing nothing."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Let nothing due to a cause outside yourself disturb your calm."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Our life is what our thoughts make it."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul."

- Marcus Aurelius

"When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own – not of the same blood and birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness. Nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him. We were born to work together like feet, hands and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are unnatural."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Do every act of your life as though it were the last act of your life."

- Marcus Aurelius

"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."

- Marcus Aurelius

"To discipline your mind is to set yourself free."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Dream big dreams; only big dreams have the power to move men’s souls."

- Marcus Aurelius

"That which is not good for the bee-hive, cannot be good for the bees."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it."

- Marcus Aurelius

"So other people hurt me? That's their problem. Their character and actions are not mine."

- Marcus Aurelius

"How satisfying it is to dismiss and block out any upsetting or foreign impression, and immediately to have peace in all things."

- Marcus Aurelius

""Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.""

- Marcus Aurelius

""Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.""

- Marcus Aurelius

"Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good."

- Marcus Aurelius

"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it."

- Marcus Aurelius

"If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt."

- 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

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?"

- 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 man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence."

- Marcus Aurelius

"A person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Or is it your reputation that’s bothering you? But look at how soon we’re all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all. The emptiness of those applauding hands. The people who praise us; how capricious they are, how arbitrary. And the tiny region it takes place. The whole earth a point in space – and most of it uninhabited."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it."

- Marcus Aurelius

"A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others."

- Marcus Aurelius

"In your actions, don't procrastinate. In your conversations, don't confuse. In your thoughts, don't wander. In your soul, don't be passive or aggressive."

- Marcus Aurelius

"How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together."

- 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

"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight."

- Marcus Aurelius

"If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it."

- Marcus Aurelius

"When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they cannot tell good from evil."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. Think constantly on the changes of the elements into each other, for such thoughts wash away the dust of earthly life."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

- Marcus Aurelius

"In your actions, don't procrastinate. In your conversations, don't confuse. In your thoughts, don't wander. In your soul, don't be passive or aggressive. In your life, don't be all about business."

- Marcus Aurelius

"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Choose not to be harmed, and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed, and you haven't been."

- Marcus Aurelius

"The best revenge is not to be like that."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Stop drifting…Sprint to the finish. Write off your hopes, and if your well-being matters to you, be your own savior while you can."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life’s books each day… The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short of time."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish."

- Marcus Aurelius

"THE HAPPINESS OF YOUR LIFE DEPENDS UPON THE QUALITY OF YOUR THOUGHTS."

- 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

"THE BEST REVENGE IS TO BE UNLIKE HIM WHO PERFORMED THE INJURY."

- Marcus Aurelius

"IT IS NOT DEATH THAT A MAN SHOULD FEAR, BUT HE SHOULD FEAR NEVER BEGINNING TO LIVE."

- Marcus Aurelius

"OUR LIFE IS WHAT OUR THOUGHTS MAKE IT."

- 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

"IF IT IS NOT RIGHT DO NOT DO IT; IF IT IS NOT TRUE DO NOT SAY IT."

- Marcus Aurelius

"WHENEVER YOU ARE ABOUT TO FIND FAULT WITH SOMEONE, ASK YOURSELF THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: WHAT FAULT OF MINE MOST NEARLY RESEMBLES THE ONE I AM ABOUT TO CRITICIZE?"

- Marcus Aurelius

"HOW MUCH MORE GRIEVOUS ARE THE CONSEQUENCES OF ANGER THAN THE CAUSES OF IT."

- Marcus Aurelius

"LIVE A GOOD LIFE. IF THERE ARE GODS AND THEY ARE JUST, THEN THEY WILL NOT CARE HOW DEVOUT YOU HAVE BEEN, BUT WILL WELCOME YOU BASED ON THE VIRTUES YOU HAVE LIVED BY. IF THERE ARE GODS, BUT UNJUST, THEN YOU SHOULD NOT WANT TO WORSHIP THEM. IF THERE ARE NO GODS, THEN YOU WILL BE GONE, BUT WILL HAVE LIVED A NOBLE LIFE THAT WILL LIVE ON IN THE MEMORIES OF YOUR LOVED ONES."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Good morning! When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Poverty is the mother of crime."

- Marcus Aurelius

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive."

- Marcus Aurelius

"A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig."

- Marcus Aurelius

"You have power over your mind —not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Act, don't react."

- Marcus Aurelius

"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."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Seek essential things; ignore unnecessary distractions."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within YOURSELF in your way of thinking."

- Marcus Aurelius