Marcus Aurelius

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

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

“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 to be unlike him who performed the injury.”

“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.”

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

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

“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together.”

“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”

“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.”

“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.”

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

“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.”

“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.”

“The obstacle is the way.”

“You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

“You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

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