Sunday, August 27, 2023

quotes: Marcus Aurelius

 Marcus Aurelius Quotes - BrainyQuote

Marcus Aurelius - Our life is what our thoughts make it.



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

2. “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. Think constantly on the changes of the elements into each other, for such thoughts wash away the dust of earthly life.”

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

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

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

6. “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.”

7. “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love…”

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

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

10. “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.”

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