Marcus Aurelius

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

—Marcus Aurelius

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

—Marcus Aurelius

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

—Marcus Aurelius

The best answer to anger is silence.

—Marcus Aurelius

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

—Marcus Aurelius

Choose not to be harmed — and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed — and you haven’t been.

—Marcus Aurelius

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.

—Marcus Aurelius

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?

—Marcus Aurelius

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

—Marcus Aurelius

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.

—Marcus Aurelius

It’s time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.

—Marcus Aurelius

The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.

—Marcus Aurelius

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

—Marcus Aurelius

It is not events that disturb people, it is their judgements concerning them.

—Marcus Aurelius