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More Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.
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.
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.
You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.
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.
If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. It is in your power to erase this judgment about it. If anything in your own nature gives you pain, you are who hinders you from correcting your opinion.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.
Think of all the years passed by in which you said to yourself "I'll do it tomorrow," and how the gods have again and again granted you periods of grace of which you have not availed yourself. It is time to realize that you are a member of the Universe, that you are born of Nature itself, and to know that a limit has been set to your time. Use every moment wisely, to perceive your inner refulgence, or 'twill be gone and nevermore within your reach.
