QUOTES

Quotes by Marcus Aurelius

"And you’ll give yourself relief, if you did every act of your life as if it were the last."
- Marcus Aurelius
"When you are above measure angry, rethink how momentary is man’s life."
- Marcus Aurelius
"A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions."
- Marcus Aurelius
"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."
- Marcus Aurelius
"Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you..."
- Marcus Aurelius
"Take charge of your attitude. Don't let someone else choose it for you. Your life is what your thoughts make it."
- Marcus Aurelius
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."
- Marcus Aurelius
"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."
- 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
"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."
- Marcus Aurelius
"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
"Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thank..."
- Marcus Aurelius
"Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life."
- Marcus Aurelius
"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."
- Marcus Aurelius
"The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time."
- Marcus Aurelius
"Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?"
- Marcus Aurelius
"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it."
- Marcus Aurelius
"How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, t..."
- Marcus Aurelius
"Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look."
- Marcus Aurelius
"What we do now echoes in eternity."
- Marcus Aurelius
"It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed."
- 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..."
- Marcus Aurelius
"A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions."
- Marcus Aurelius
"I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his ow..."
- Marcus Aurelius
"Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not ‘This is misfortune,’ but ‘To bear this wo..."
- Marcus Aurelius
"Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life."
- Marcus Aurelius
"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."
- Marcus Aurelius