1. "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."2. "You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."3. "Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. Think constantly on the changes of the elements into each other, for such thoughts wash away the dust of earthly life."4. "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."5. "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."6. "Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."7. "How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."8. "The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."9. "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."10. "The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."11. "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."12. "If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it."13. "Think of the life you have lived until now as over and, as a dead man, see what's left as a bonus and live it according to Nature. Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own, for what could be more fitting?"14. "Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking."15. "Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live."Related: How To Use Wisdom To 'Know Your Enemy'—Here Are the 75 Best Sun Tzu Quotes
Famous Quotes From Marcus Aurelius
17. "Try praying differently, and see what happens: Instead of asking for 'a way to sleep with her,' try asking for 'a way to stop desiring to sleep with her.' Instead of 'a way to get rid of him,' try asking for 'a way to not crave his demise.' Instead of 'a way to not lose my child,' try asking for 'a way to lose my fear of it.'"
19. "[I have learned] to read with diligence; not to rest satisfied with a light and superficial knowledge, nor quickly to assent to things commonly spoken of."
21. "It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices."
23. "That cucumber is bitter, so toss it out! There are thorns on the path, then keep away! Enough said. Why ponder the existence of nuisance?"
25. "Let each thing you would do, say or intend, be like that of a dying person."
27. "Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing, and cease roving and wandering to and fro."
29. "You have been formed of three parts—body, breath and mind. Of these, the first two are yours, insofar as they are only in your care. The third alone is truly yours."
31. "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."
33. "No random actions, none not based on underlying principles."
35. "Whenever someone has done wrong by you, immediately consider what notion of good or evil they had in doing it. For when you see that, you'll feel compassion, instead of astonishment or rage."
37. "Stay calm and serene regardless of what life throws at you."
39. "How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy."
40. "If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed."Related: 75 Franz Kafka Quotes on Love, Life and Reading
Marcus Aurelius Quotes on Life, Love and Death
42. "All you need are these: certainty of judgment in the present moment: action for the common good in the present moment; and an attitude of gratitude in the present moment for anything that comes your way."
44. "Don't be ashamed of needing help. You have a duty to fulfill, just like a soldier on the wall of battle. So what if you are injured and can't climb up without another soldier's help?"
46. "The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
48. "I learned to read carefully and not be satisfied with a rough understanding of the whole, and not to agree too quickly with those who have a lot to say about something."
50. "Dig deep within yourself, for there is a fountain of goodness ever ready to flow if you will keep digging."
52. "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."
54. "Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just."
56. "To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony."
58. "It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
60. "Understand at last that you have something in you more powerful and divine than what causes the bodily passions and pulls you like a mere puppet. What thoughts now occupy my mind? Is it not fear, suspicion, desire or something like that?"Related: From Narnia to Wormwood to the Four Loves—Here Are the Best 125 C.S. Lewis Quotes
Top Marcus Aurelius Quotes
62. "Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look."
64. "Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature."
66. "Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders' ignorance of what is good or evil."
68. "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."
70. "You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone."
72. "Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it? Can any vital process take place without something being changed? Can't you see? It's just the same with you—and just as vital to nature."
74. "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?"
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