Marcus Aurelius

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

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."

"How small a part of the boundless and unfathomable time is assigned to every man."

"Unhappiness comes from the desire for a different life than the one you're living."

"Receive without pride, let go without attachment."

"Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already or is impossible to see."

"Look within. Within is the source of strength which will never fail you."

"Choose not to be harmed—and you won't be. Feel harmed and you are."

"When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you possess: the energy of one, the modesty of another, the generosity of a third, and some other quality in a fourth."

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants and contented minds."

"Trouble yourself not with the affairs of others and with events beyond your control. Attend instead to your own business and your own path."

"Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered."

"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, because an artful wrestler falls back on his strength and skill if suddenly surprised."

"Nature does nothing uselessly."

"You could leave life right now. But if you stay, be intentional about how you live."

"Slow down. Pause. Stop complaining about your obstacles and start attacking them."

"In the mind of one who has heard that the divine will is to love mankind, there is a sort of passion for it."

"A person is but the product of their thoughts. What they think, they become."

"The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have."

"Respect the intellectual property of others."

"Stop allowing your confused impressions about how things really are to be the criteria for action."

"Do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible."

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who has too much, who is poor."

"When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, remember your purpose."

"Luck is preparation meeting opportunity."

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."

"You could leave life right now. Does that change anything?"

"You will find your cure in work."

"No one can rob you of your free will."

"The limits of my language are the limits of my world."