Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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 only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.”

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

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”

“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 only way to deal with pain: go directly into it. Use it, feel it, learn from it.”

“Do not waste your time on what you cannot control or influence. Focus on what you can, and be at peace.”

“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.”

“If it is not right, do not do it. If it is not true, do not say it.”

“What we do now echoes in eternity.”

“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.”

“The soul of a man does violence to itself first and foremost when it becomes an abscess and a tumor on the universe.”

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