1,166 Quotes by Marcus Aurelius

Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.

Our thoughts is what our life make it

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?

Every man is worth just so much as the things about which he busies himself.

It is in your own power to maintain the beauty of your soul, or to be a decent human being.

The universe is flux, life is opinion.

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.