More quotes from 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.
- Marcus Aurelius
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love
- Marcus Aurelius
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
- 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 soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
- Marcus Aurelius
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
- Marcus Aurelius
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.
- 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
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?
- Marcus Aurelius
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
- Marcus Aurelius
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
- Marcus Aurelius
What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
- Marcus Aurelius
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
- Marcus Aurelius
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly.
- Marcus Aurelius
Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
- Marcus Aurelius