Marcus Aurelius on Happiness Quotes

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

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

"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."

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

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

"Confine yourself to the present."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Receive without conceit, release without struggle."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"Be content to seem what you really are."

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

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

"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."

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