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Top 60 Marcus Aurelius Quotes on Life (LOVE)

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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.
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.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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.
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.
Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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.
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.
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Nowhere 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
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?
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?
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
Because most of what we say and do is not essential. Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary'
Because most of what we say and do is not essential. Ask yourself at every moment, ‘Is this necessary?’
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Do 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.
Do 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.
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.
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.
If 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.
If 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.
Do 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.
Do 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.
Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.
Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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.
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.
Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
What we do now echoes in eternity.
What we do now echoes in eternity.
The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.
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.
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.
It’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.
It’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.
Take a good hard look at people’s ruling principle, especially of the wise, what they run away from & what they seek out.
Take a good hard look at people’s ruling principle, especially of the wise, what they run away from & what they seek out.
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Here 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.’
Here 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
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 opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.
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 opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.
To live a good life We have the potential for it. If we learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.
To live a good life: We have the potential for it. If we learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.
You’re better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve.
You’re better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve.
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.
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.
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
Understand 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.
Understand 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.
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
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.
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.
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
Each day provides its own gifts.
Each day provides its own gifts.
Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly.
Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.
Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?
Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?
You don’t have to turn this into something. It doesn’t have to upset you.
You don’t have to turn this into something. It doesn’t have to upset you.
You shouldn’t give circumstances the power to rouse anger, for they don’t care at all.
You shouldn’t give circumstances the power to rouse anger, for they don’t care at all.
It’s a disgrace in this life when the soul surrenders first while the body refuses to.
It’s a disgrace in this life when the soul surrenders first while the body refuses to.
Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter.
Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter.

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