Marcus Aurelius

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

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

Happiness • Life • Quality

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

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

Contentment • Growth • Happiness

Each day provides its own gifts.

Each day provides its own gifts.

Gratitude • Improvement • Mindfulness

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Life • Motivational • Philosophy

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Improvement • Life • Mindfulness

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Adversity • Endurance • Nature

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

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

Education • Success • Talent

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.

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.

Life • Sanity

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

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

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Change • Flow • Life

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Growth • Improvement • Mindfulness

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Happiness • Improvement • Spirituality

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

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

Improvement • Philosophy • Spirituality

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Health • Peace • Reflection

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Improvement • Mindfulness • Philosophy

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

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

Death • Fear • Life

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Education • Growth • Research

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Honesty • Integrity

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Destiny • Life • Love

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Life • Perseverance • Philosophy