Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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.

The tranquility that comes when you stop caring what they say. Or think, or do. Only what YOU do.

Even the smallest things ought to be directed toward a goal.

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

No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good.

And you can also commit injustice by doing nothing.

You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you.

When faced with people's bad behavior, turn around and ask when you have acted like that.

To do harm is to do yourself harm. To do an injustice is to do yourself an injustice—it degrades you.

Life is short—the fruit of this life is a good character and acts for the common good.

Remember how long you have been putting off these things, and how many times the gods have given you days of grace, and yet you do not use them.

We have the power to hold no opinion about a thing and to not let it upset our state of mind—for things have no natural power to shape our judgments.

Remind yourself what you've been through and what you've had the strength to endure.

Remember how long you've been putting this off, how many extensions the gods gave you and you didn't use them...there is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and will never return.

Practice even what seems impossible.