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Marcus Aurelius

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• "The only thing in our power is our own thoughts."
• "The best revenge is not to be like your enemy."
• "Happiness in your life depends on the quality of your thoughts."
• "Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time and tranquility."
• "You have power over your mind - not external events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
• "If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it."
• "The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."
• "Stop wasting time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."
• "Life is too short to waste on unnecessary worries."
• "The strength of a person lies in the resolute calm of their mind."
• "Reason should be our guide, not opinion."
• "Only the present can be lost, for it is all we have."
• "Accept with serenity what cannot be changed, courage to change what can be changed, and wisdom to distinguish between the two."
• "Change is constant. Our life is what our thoughts make it."
• "Do not waste the rest of your life thinking about what others think."
• "The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."
• "The good man is he who does good to others."
• "Harming others is harming yourself."
• "Remain indifferent to pain. It cannot hurt you unless you let it."
• "Choose not to be harmed, and you will not feel harmed."
• "Learn to be indifferent to things that are indifferent."
• "The good man is he who labors for justice and nothing else."
• "Happiness depends on the quality of your thoughts."
• "The greatest of all traps is to believe that appearances are reality."
• "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
• "If you suffer because of external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your judgment about them."
• "When you rise in the morning, think of the precious privilege of being alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."
• "Every day seek beauty, and it will reveal itself."
• "Kindness is invincible."
• "Do not live as if you were to live forever. Death hangs over you."
• "Things do not touch the soul, but remain outside of it, and disturbance comes only from internal opinion."
• "If you are disturbed by something external, it is not that which is troubling you, but your own judgment about it."
• "Think of what you have instead of thinking about what you lack."
• "Wisdom is never a certainty, it is a constant search."
• "Nothing has so much power to expand the mind as the ability to systematically and truly investigate all that is observable in life."
• "Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back."
• "The best revenge is to become different from what he is who caused the offense."
• "Everything is just opinion and opinion can be overcome."
• "He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."
• "The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make of it."
• "The crowd is not wise simply because it is a crowd."
• "Each day is a new opportunity to start over."
• "Think about how brief your existence is and how the world existed before you and will continue to exist after you."
• "The obstacle is the path."
• "It is not death that a man should fear, but never starting to live."