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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- 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

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

- Marcus Aurelius

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Marcus Aurelius

If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

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

- Marcus Aurelius

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Marcus Aurelius

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

- 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

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretense.

- Marcus Aurelius

It is not the actions of others which trouble us, but rather it is our own judgments.

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Marcus Aurelius

The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.

- Marcus Aurelius

Confine yourself to the present.

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Marcus Aurelius

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

- Marcus Aurelius

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

- Marcus Aurelius

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.

- Marcus Aurelius

It is not events that disturb people, it is their judgments concerning them.

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Marcus Aurelius

What we do now echoes in eternity.

- Marcus Aurelius

The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.

- Marcus Aurelius