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 AURELIUSVery little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
-
-
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
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 AURELIUS -
All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
MARCUS AURELIUS