Each month, there will be an article featuring quotes written by a variety of authors. For this issue, there will be a collection of quotes made by philosopher and last of the Five Good Emperors of the Roman Empire, Marcus Aurelius.
“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“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.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love …”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“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.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“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.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“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, Meditations
“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Always look forward to these every month.
Thank You!