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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”

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

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Depression, Insanity

Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, God, Death

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

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Life, Positive

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

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Moving On, Death
Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.144, Sheba Blake Publishing

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Beauty, Running

Your life is an expression of all your thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Expression, Life Is

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

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

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Art, Philosophical
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), George Maximilian Anthony Grube (1963). “The meditations”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

A person's life is dyed with the color of his imagination.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Color, Imagination

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Past, Men
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book III, (10), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

Each day provides its own gifts.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Gratitude, Philosophical

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 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

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

Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Future, Past
"Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IV, 50,

Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Positive, Able
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.139, Modern Library

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

Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Time, Giving
Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.25, Enhanced Media Publishing

Our life is what our thoughts make it. Do every act of your life as if it were your last. In a word, your life is short. You must make the most of the present with the aid of reason and justice. Since it is possible that you may be quitting life this very moment, govern every act and thought accordingly.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Justice, May

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Real, Philosophical
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1908). “The Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus”

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Cute, Warfare
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.11, Lulu.com

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