Marcus Aurelius
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: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good person should be. Be one.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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.
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Your life is what your thoughts make it.
The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
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.
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
