Marcus Aurelius

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

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

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

"The greatest wealth is health."

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

"Perfection is not just about control. It is also about letting go."

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

"How much trouble he avoids who does not look to what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only to what he does himself."

"When you wake up, think of the value of the day that is before you."

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

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

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

"Our life is what our thoughts make it."

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

"Lose your life and you will save it. Give everything away and you will be enriched."

"Everything is temporary."

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

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

"The world is transformation, our life is what our thoughts make it."

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

"You will have evil rulers over you, not because you are unworthy to have good ones, but because you are unworthy to have them."

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it. This you have the power to revoke at any moment."

"Confine yourself to the present."

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."

"Meditate often on the interconnectedness and mutual interdependence of all things in the universe."

"Do what is necessary, and whatever the reason of a social animal naturally requires, and as it requires."

"Time is a river of passing events."

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."

"Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn't matter."

"You cannot choose your external circumstances, but you can always choose how you respond to them."