Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“No man is happy who does not think himself so.”

“Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.”

“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.”

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

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

“Observe constantly that all things take place by change.”

“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current.”

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