MARCUS AURELIUS MOST FAMOUS QUOTES

“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.”

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

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

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.”

“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”

“You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.”

“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.” QUOTES ABOUT POOPING AT WORK

“Whatever anyone does or says, I must be good; just as if the gold, or the emerald, or the purple were always saying this, “Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my color.””

“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.”

“How much of our own tranquillity we surrender to others.”

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

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore, guard accordingly.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“What is not good for the beehive is not good for the bee.”

“Is any man afraid of change? What can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature? And can you take a hot bath unless the wood for the fire undergoes a change? And can you be nourished unless the food undergoes a change? And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Do you not see then that for yourself also to change is just the same, and equally necessary for the universal nature?”

“Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.”

“You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.”