Marcus Aurelius

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”

“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.”

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.”

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”