Marcus Aurelius Quotes

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. – Marcus Aurelius

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

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

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. – Marcus Aurelius

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. – Marcus Aurelius

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. – Marcus Aurelius

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

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

A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. – Marcus Aurelius

Take full account of what excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them if you had them not. – Marcus Aurelius

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. – Marcus Aurelius

The obstacle is the way. – Marcus Aurelius

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. – Marcus Aurelius

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

Marcus Aurelius Quotes part 2

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

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. – Marcus Aurelius

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. – 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

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

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

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

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. – Marcus Aurelius

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

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. – Marcus Aurelius

A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. – Marcus Aurelius

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger. – Marcus Aurelius

No man is free who is not master of himself. – Marcus Aurelius

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid. – Marcus Aurelius

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy. – Marcus Aurelius

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. – Marcus Aurelius

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. – Marcus Aurelius

The best way to avenge ourselves is to not be like them. – Marcus Aurelius

The purpose 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

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

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. – Marcus Aurelius

To live happily is an inward power of the soul. – Marcus Aurelius

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. – Marcus Aurelius

Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought, for the human spirit is colored by such impressions. – Marcus Aurelius

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. – Marcus Aurelius

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. – Marcus Aurelius

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, because an artful life requires being prepared to meet and withstand sudden and unexpected attacks. – Marcus Aurelius

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