Marcus Aurelius on Peace Quotes

"Receive without conceit, release without struggle."

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

"Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear."

"Dig within. There lies the fount of good; a fount whose waters will ever bubble up, if you but dig deep enough."

"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it."

"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 neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself."

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

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

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

"If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now."

"Limit yourself to the present."

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

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

"It is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose."

"Do not be disturbed. Uncomplicate yourself."

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

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

"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."

"Everything is as if it were a dream, or a mere shadow."

"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."

"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."

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

"Tranquillity is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind."

"Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig."

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

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

"Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun."

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

"What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee."

"People try to get away from it all—to the country, to the beach, to the mountains. You always wish that you could too. Which is idiotic: you can get away from it anytime you like. By going within. Nowhere you can go is more peaceful—more free of interruptions—than your own soul. (Hays translation) IV, 4"

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