Marcus Aurelius

"You exist as a fraction of the whole. Know that you are but one person, part of an enormous network."

"To understand the world, understand yourself first."

"Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently think about."

"Never forget the feeling when someone helped you in a moment of desperate need."

"Life is short. That's all the more reason to treat people with kindness, respect, and truth."

"Refuse to be disheartened by what you cannot control."

"The obstacle is the way. The path lies through what stands in your path."

"Look for the light of reason in every person, and hold fast to it."

"All people are neighbors and friends because we share in the same universal reason."

"Your limitations are your gifts. Work within them to develop your character."

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

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

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

"You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you."

"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."

"Our life is what our thoughts make it."

"Confine yourself to the present."

"The universe is transformation; life is opinion."

"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."

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

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

"Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?"

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

"Malice can never drive out malice. Only love can do that."

"Time is a river of passing events."

"If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labor passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures."

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

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

"Rightly no one can rob you of your free will."

"Remember that all we have is the present moment, the fleeting now; all the rest of our life is either past or is uncertain."