The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
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.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
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.
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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.
Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
Each day provides its own gifts.
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Poverty is the mother of crime.
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
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 own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
Confine yourself to the present.
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
The universe is transformation: life is opinion.
Anger cannot be dishonest.
