Marcus Aurelius
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.Collection: Power
Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.Collection: Change
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.Collection: Good
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.Collection: Morning
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.Collection: Nature
Each day provides its own gifts.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Inspirational
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.Collection: Future
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.Collection: Death
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.Collection: Inspirational
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.Collection: Great
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.Collection: Nature
Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.Collection: Success
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.Collection: Future
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'Collection: Good
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.Collection: Good
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.Collection: Men
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.Collection: Nature
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.Collection: Good
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.Collection: Wisdom
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.Collection: Science
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.Collection: Happiness
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.Collection: Best
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.Collection: Time
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.Collection: Peace
The universe is transformation: life is opinion.Collection: Life
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.Collection: Death
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.Collection: Attitude
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.Collection: Life
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.Collection: Power
Anger cannot be dishonest.Collection: Anger
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.Collection: Beauty
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.Collection: Art
Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.Collection: Work
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.Collection: Life
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.Collection: Art
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.Collection: Nature
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.Collection: Life
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.Collection: Time
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.Collection: Design
Men exist for the sake of one another.Collection: Men
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.Collection: Imagination
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.Collection: Power
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.Collection: Life
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.Collection: Nature
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.Collection: Best
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.Collection: Death
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.Collection: Strength
Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.Collection: Good
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.Collection: Education