Great Marcus Aurelius Quotes
“Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.”
“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”
Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions – not outside.
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notion unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”
“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.”
“No one can lose either the past or the future – how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess? … It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.”
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
“If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.”
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