More Quotes by 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.
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus.
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.
Give yourself a gift: the present moment.
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 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 impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them.
Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception
