Quotes from Marcus Aurelius
If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.
- Marcus Aurelius
If you are distressed by something, it is due to your own estimate of it; and you have the power to change it at will.
- Marcus Aurelius
One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind.
- Marcus Aurelius
God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.
- Marcus Aurelius
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
- Marcus Aurelius
There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.
- Marcus Aurelius
Let every action aim solely at the common good.
- Marcus Aurelius
You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common due impends; while you live, and while you may, be good.
- Marcus Aurelius
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.
- Marcus Aurelius
Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
- Marcus Aurelius
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
- Marcus Aurelius