Marcus Aurelius on Happiness Quotes

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

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

"Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time."

"Dig within. Within is the well of good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig."

"Receive without conceit, release without struggle."

"Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so."

"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."

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

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

"Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would have craved for them if they were not yours."

"Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom you have been ordained to live."

"Do every act of your life as if it were your last."

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

"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."

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

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

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

"How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy."

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

"Pass through this brief patch of time in harmony with nature, and come to your final resting place gracefully, just as a ripened olive might drop."

"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."

"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."

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

"Be content to seem what you really are."

"Think of the life you have lived until now as over and, as a dead man, see what’s left as a bonus and live it according to Nature."

"Look within. Let neither the peculiar quality of anything nor its value escape thee."

"He who is content with his lot and the portion assigned to him is a happy man."

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

"Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present – thoughtfully, justly."

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

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

"It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire."

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