If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.
MARCUS AURELIUSTake full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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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.
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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
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Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.
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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.
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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.
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Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.
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Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
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A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
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Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
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How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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