Marcus Aurelius (Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus) was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 Up to 169 Marcus Aurelius reigned with his adoptive bro, Lucius Verus. After Verus' death was Aurelius sole leader of the Roman Empire.
Aurelius is recognized to have been interested in viewpoint. He also seems to have been really religious. Currently at the age of 8 he had a title as a sort of priest, and also he wanted the supposed Eleusinian secrets. Frequently he is portrayed in front of a church. He was also a knowledgeable warrior.
Our collection contains 69 quotes who is written / told by Marcus, under the main topics: Happiness - Anger.
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly"
"A man should be upright, not be kept upright"
"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking"
"To live happily is an inward power of the soul"
"Each day provides its own gifts"
"Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live"
"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"
"The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious"
"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts"
"To refrain from imitation is the best revenge"
"Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.""
"Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them"
"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"
"Anger cannot be dishonest"
"And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last"
"Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live"
"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"
"A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires"
"A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions"
"Your life is what your thoughts make it"
"You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long"
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength"
"Where a man can live, he can also live well"
"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing"
"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears"
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live"
"How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks"
"The act of dying is one of the acts of life"
"To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution"
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature"
"Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise"
"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul"
"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life"
"Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear"
"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"
"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability"
"Men exist for the sake of one another"
"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight"
"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it"
"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"
"There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with"
"The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it"
"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it"
"The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle"
"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts"
"The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer"
"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe"
"Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle"
"Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last"
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth"
