Selected quotes · 43
№ 01
“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 AureliusHappiness
№ 02
“He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.”
Marcus AureliusWisdom
№ 03
“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 opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”
Marcus AureliusLove
№ 04
“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.”
Marcus AureliusCreativity
№ 05
“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”
Marcus AureliusFaith
№ 06
“The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.”
Marcus AureliusMindset
№ 07
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus AureliusFreedom
№ 08
“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”
Marcus AureliusFriendship
№ 09
“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.”
Marcus AureliusFreedom
№ 10
“Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.”
Marcus AureliusLife
№ 11
“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.”
Marcus AureliusLife
№ 12
“To live happily is an inward power of the soul.”
Marcus AureliusFaith
№ 13
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Marcus AureliusHappiness
№ 14
“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”
Marcus AureliusFreedom
№ 15
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Marcus AureliusAction
№ 16
“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.”
Marcus AureliusLife
№ 17
“Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”
Marcus AureliusWisdom
№ 18
“Receive without conceit, release without struggle.”
Marcus AureliusResilience
№ 19
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
Marcus AureliusLife
№ 20
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be, be one.”
Marcus AureliusTime
№ 21
“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
Marcus AureliusWisdom
№ 22
“Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.”
Marcus AureliusHappiness
№ 23
“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.”
Marcus AureliusJustice
№ 24
“Anger cannot be dishonest.”
Marcus AureliusWisdom
№ 25
“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
Marcus AureliusLife
№ 26
“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”
Marcus AureliusWisdom
№ 27
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
Marcus AureliusWisdom
№ 28
“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 AureliusLife
№ 29
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
Marcus AureliusLife
№ 30
“Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.”
Marcus AureliusNature
№ 31
“Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.”
Marcus AureliusLife
№ 32
“Each day provides its own gifts.”
Marcus AureliusWisdom
№ 33
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
Marcus AureliusHappiness
№ 34
“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?.”
Marcus AureliusSuccess
№ 35
“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
Marcus AureliusLife
№ 36
“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
Marcus AureliusWisdom
№ 37
“The act of dying is also one of the acts of life.”
Marcus AureliusLife
№ 38
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
Marcus AureliusJustice
№ 39
“Ask thyself, daily, to how many ill-minded persons thou hast shown a kind disposition.”
Marcus AureliusMindset
№ 40
“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.”
Marcus AureliusSuccess
№ 41
“Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.”
Marcus AureliusHappiness
№ 42
“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”
Marcus AureliusFailure
№ 43
“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.”
Marcus AureliusCreativity