Marcus Aurelius on Depression Quotes

"That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bee."

"Receive without conceit, release without struggle."

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

"The objective of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."

"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul."

"Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life."

"Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice!"

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

"When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love..."

"Our life is what our thoughts make it."

"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."

"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."

"Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it."

"Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions — not outside."

"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."

"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

"Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly."

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

"Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already."

"Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish."

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

"Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, free from affectation, a friend of justice, a worshiper of the gods, kind, affectionate, strenuous in all proper work."

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

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

"At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: 'I have to go to work—as a human being.'"

"External things are not the problem. It’s your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now."