"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?"