Marcus Aurelius

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

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

"You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think."

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

"Very little is needed to turn around completely. All that's needed is the courage to live."

"Confine yourself to the present."

"It is not things themselves that trouble people, but their judgments about those things."

"You have within you, right now, the strength to move mountains."

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together."

"Our life is what our thoughts make it."

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

"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."

"The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away."

"Somewhere out there is the enemy of my life. For every malevolent force, there exists a virtuous remedy."

"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small."

"Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, free from affectation, a friend to justice."

"Everything is temporary, from thoughts to things, from beings to this whole world."

"The present moment is ever the same, yet the Now is always new."

"You have perhaps been driven by your nature toward a higher calling."

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the acts which provoke it."

"Concentrate every minute like a Roman, and a man, on doing what's in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness."

"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."

"True success is the fruit of the seeds you sow within yourself."

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

"Treat with respect the force in you that commands action, and everything follows."

"You may have lost today, but you have been given tomorrow to try again."

"The greatest wealth is health."

"A blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it."

"Fate guides the willing, and drags along the unwilling."

"Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, egoism, lying, and cruelty."