Aurelius Quotes – Wisdom from the Stoic Emperor

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

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

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

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

He who fears death will never do anything worth living for.

Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

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

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

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

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself.

The world is nothing but change. Our life is only perception.

A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.

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

Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the Author chooses.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

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

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

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.

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

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

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

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

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.

You are a little soul carrying a corpse.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

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

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.

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

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.

If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the quality of your relationships.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

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.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

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

The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own.

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.