Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ..."

"We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first."

"striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to achieve calm."

"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."

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

"If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance."

"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too."

"What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne."

"How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy."

"From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition."

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."

"Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?"

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

"No man is happy who does not think himself so."

"If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance."

"Our life is what our thoughts make it."

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

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

"Our life is what our thoughts make it."

"The best revenge is not to be like your enemy."