Marcus Aurelius Meditations Quotes offers wisdom on leadership, personal ethics, the nature of humanity, courage, justice, and self-discipline to improve your life.
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Marcus Aurelius Meditations Quotes
You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. – Marcus Aurelius
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. – Marcus Aurelius
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men’s badness, which is impossible.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothing can happen to you that is not required by Nature.
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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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.
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.
It’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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 though it were the very last act of your life.
The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Wherever a person can live, there one can also live well.
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.
Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly.
marcus aurelius quotes on discipline
If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.
We should discipline ourselves in small things, and from these progress to things of greater value.
How to act: never under compulsion, out of selfishness, without forethought, with misgivings.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
There is no magic wand that can resolve our problems. The solution rests with our work and discipline. – Jose Eduardo dos Santos
marcus aurelius quotes on love
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.
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love…
From my brother Severus I learned to love my kin, and to love truth, and to love justice.
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.
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.
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.
Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.
To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony.
marcus aurelius quotes on life
Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
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.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learned to obey them. Much more so in life.
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, because an artful life requires being prepared to meet and withstand sudden and unexpected attacks.
The universe is change. Life is opinion.
To live a good life: We have the potential for it. If we learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.
The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
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.
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
marcus aurelius meditations quotes on death
Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
About death: Whether it is a dispersion, or a resolution into atoms, or annihilation, it is either extinction or change.
Death is not an evil. What is it then? The one law making has that is free of all discrimination.
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.
Stop whatever you’re doing for a moment and ask yourself: ‘Am I afraid of death because I won’t be able to do this anymore?’
About death: Whether it is a dispersion, or a resolution into atoms, or annihilation, it is either extinction or change.
I cannot escape death, but at least I can escape the fear of it.
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