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

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

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker (1701). “The Emperor-Marcus Antonius: his conversation with himself. together with the preliminary discourse of the learned Gataker”

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

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Motivational, Strength
Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.116, Lulu.com

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.

Marcus Aurelius
Love, Inspirational, Life

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
Inspirational, Positive, Depression

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

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Life, Positive

Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Smile, Uplifting

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Empathy, Faults
Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Truth, Honesty
Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.72, Lulu.com

Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.

Marcus Aurelius
Love, Inspirational, Destiny

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Life, Change
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (3), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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
Love, Inspirational, Valentines Day

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Philosophical, Failure

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Education, Learning

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Philosophical, Thinking

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.

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Water, Cliffs
Marcus Aurelius (1945). “Marcus Aurelius and His Times”

What we do now echoes in eternity.

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Life, Echoes

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
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

The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Fire, Flames
Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.62, Lulu.com

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

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Life, Happiness

Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, People, Tears

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Power, Judging

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Philosophical, Self Confidence
Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.50, Enhanced Media Publishing

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Life, Work
Marcus Aurelius (2012). “Meditations”, p.9, Courier Corporation

It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres.

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Perseverance, Attitude
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1906). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus”

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