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.
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Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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.
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.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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.
Confine yourself to the present.
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
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.
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.
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
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.
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
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.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
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 back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
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