Marcus Aurelius

"You have power over your mind — not outside events."

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

"If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it."

"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."

"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself."

"Look within. Within is the fountain of good."

"Accept the things to which fate binds you."

"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."

"Very little is needed to make a happy life."

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact."

"Loss is nothing else but change."

"The impediment to action advances action."

"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."

"What we do now echoes in eternity."

"Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself."

"Choose not to be harmed — and you won’t feel harmed."

"Do every act of your life as though it were the last."

"What stands in the way becomes the way."

"Everything is ephemeral."

"A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions."

"The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes."

"If it is endurable, then endure it."

"The art of living is more like wrestling."

"Do not waste time on what you cannot change."

"The happiness of your life depends on your thoughts."

"Live a good life."

"All is ephemeral."

"Today I escaped anxiety."

"Be like the rocky headland."

"Soon you will have forgotten everything."

"Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years."

"The best answer to anger is silence."

"Be content to seem what you really are."