More Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. It is in your power to erase this judgment about it. If anything in your own nature gives you pain, you are who hinders you from correcting your opinion.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your 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.
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.
Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus.
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?
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
