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Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.

Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.

Marcus Aurelius
Happiness, Thinking, Select

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

Marcus Aurelius
Happiness, Character, Carpe Diem
Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.116, Penguin UK

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Happiness, Success
"The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 584, 1856.

Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

Marcus Aurelius
Happiness, Sad, Broken Heart
"Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (circa 170), p. 19, 1995 edition.

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.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Happiness, Happy
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1726). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus: His Conversation with Himself. Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker”, p.155

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Marcus Aurelius
Happiness, Peace, Philosophical
Attributed in "The Life You Were Born to Live : Finding Your Life Purpose" by Dan Millman, (Pt. 2, Ch. 2), 1995.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

Marcus Aurelius
Love, Family, Happiness

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Life, Happiness

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Happiness, Positive Thinking

Happiness is no other than soundness and perfection of mind.

Marcus Aurelius
Happiness, Perfection, Mind
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), James Thomson (gent.) (1766). “The Commentaries of the Emperor Marcus Antoninus. Translated from the Greek, by Mr. Thomson”, p.99

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Marcus Aurelius
Happiness, Laughter, Philosophical
Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations (Diversion Classics)”, p.219, Diversion Books

The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.

Marcus Aurelius
Happiness, Laughter, Animal
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IX, (16), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Marcus Aurelius
Happiness, Care, Virtue
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1708). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus His Conversation with Himself: Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker ; as Also the Emperor's Life”, p.193

I can at once become happy anywhere, for he is happy who has found himself a happy lot. In a word, happiness lies all in the functions of reason, in warrantable desires and virtuous practice.

Marcus Aurelius
Happiness, Lying, Practice
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Emperor of Rome.), Alice Zimmern (189?). “Meditations”

A man's happiness,-to do the things proper to man.

Marcus Aurelius
Happiness, Men

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