Marcus Aurelius Quotes | Fat Tony's

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Marcus Aurelius

"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Marcus Aurelius

"The best revenge is not to be like your enemy."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?"

- Marcus Aurelius

"Confine yourself to the present."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back."

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Marcus Aurelius

"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I."

- Marcus Aurelius