Marcus Aurelius Quotes on Life – Insights from a Roman Emperor

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

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

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

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

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.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

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

Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by.

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

The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.

Choose not to be harmed, and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed, and you haven’t been.

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

The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach.

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

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

Marcus Aurelius Quotes on Life – Insights from a Roman Emperor part 2

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

To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony.

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

You have power over your mind, not outside events.

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

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

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

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

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

How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

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

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

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretense.

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.

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

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

Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by.

The best way to avenge yourself is to not be like that.

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

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

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

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

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

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.

What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the path.

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

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

To live a good life: We have the potential for it. If we can learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.