Marcus Aurelius Quotes
From Meditations

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

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"If it is not right, do not do it. If it is not true, do not say it."

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"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, Meditations

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

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"Confine yourself to the present."

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"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, Meditations

"Our life is what our thoughts make it."

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"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."

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good."

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly."

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness."

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control."

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"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, Meditations

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"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."

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are."

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"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, Meditations

"The best way to avenge yourself is to not be like that."

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"It is not death that terrifies, but the thought of death."

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations