PinThe 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.PinYou have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.PinThe best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.PinDwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.PinIt is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.PinWhen you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.PinBe tolerant with others and strict with yourself.PinWaste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.PinNever 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.PinNowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
25 Wise Marcus Aurelius Quotes to Live By (WISDOM)
“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.”
Marcus Aurelius
PinWhenever 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?PinEverything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.PinReject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.PinBecause most of what we say and do is not essential. Ask yourself at every moment, ‘Is this necessary?’PinVery little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.PinDo not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.PinThe first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.PinIf you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.PinDo not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.PinDo every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.PinWhen you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.PinHow 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.PinBegin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.PinThe impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.PinWhat we do now echoes in eternity.PinThe soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.PinTo the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.PinLook back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.PinA man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.PinWe 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.PinIt’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.PinTake a good hard look at people’s ruling principle, especially of the wise, what they run away from & what they seek out.PinLook within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.PinHere is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not ‘This is misfortune,’ but ‘To bear this worthily is good fortune.’
25 Inspirational Marcus Aurelius Quotes on Life and Thoughts (CHANGE)
“When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.”
Marcus Aurelius
PinI 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 opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.PinTo live a good life: We have the potential for it. If we learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.PinYou’re better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve.PinAccept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.PinThe universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.PinHe who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.PinThe memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.PinUnderstand that your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.PinLook well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.PinThe object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.PinIf it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.PinThe art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.PinEverything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.PinNothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.PinEach day provides its own gifts.PinThink of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly.PinA noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself.PinLoss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.PinAccept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?PinYou don’t have to turn this into something. It doesn’t have to upset you.PinYou shouldn’t give circumstances the power to rouse anger, for they don’t care at all.PinIt’s a disgrace in this life when the soul surrenders first while the body refuses to.PinRemember that very little is needed to make a happy life.PinJust that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter.
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