Marcus Aurelius: 9
Meditations, book 6 (paraphrase)“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength.”
Meditations, 7.67“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Meditations, 10.16“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
Meditations (paraphrase)“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.”
Meditations, 5.16 (paraphrase)“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
Meditations, 7.29“Confine yourself to the present.”
Meditations, 6.6“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
traditional“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
Meditations, 7.56“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what is left and live it properly.”