Marcus Aurelius

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

“When you wake in the morning, remember what a precious gift it is to be alive: to breathe, to think, to feel, to love.”

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

“The soul takes on the color of your thoughts.”

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

“It is not death that a man should fear, but never beginning to live.”

“What does not benefit the swarm does not benefit the bee either.”

“Soon you will have forgotten everything, and soon everyone will have forgotten you.”

“Do not torment yourself with the future. You will meet it, if you must, with the same reason that serves you in the present.”

“The best way to avenge yourself: do not become like the one who did the wrong.”

“Dig within yourself. Within lies the wellspring of good, and it can always flow again if you keep digging.”

“People look for retreats: in the country, by the sea, in the mountains. Yet you are free to retreat into yourself at any hour.”

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

“Do not live as though you had ten thousand years before you. While you live, while you can: be good.”