40 Quotes that will BOOST your Life ▶ Marcus Aurelius

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We all need a little inspiration every now and then.
The ability to find that extra spark.
Ancient wisdom can inspire you to take matters into your own hands, to not sit on your ass, but instead to make something of your life.
One of the ancient world’s most quotable authors,was Marcus Aurelius.
His writing has remained relevant for almost two thousand years because he wrote as a man not an emperor. He wrote about his fear, and his emotions, his sense of the fleetingness of life and the importance of living in and savoring the moment.
It is extraordinary to think that Marcus Aurelius wrote these quotes while he was planning to fight or actually waging war near the Danube river.
Here are some profound quotes from Marcus Aurelius found in his work Meditations.
They are full of beauty and wisdom.






The Quotes


Roman emperor,Marcus Aurelius.



1. You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
2. Very little is needed to make a happy life, it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
3. It is not events that disturb people, it is their judgements concerning them.
4. If it’s not right, don’t do it. If it’s not true, don’t say it.
5. The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
6. Confine yourself to the present.
7. Straight, not straightenred.
8. When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
9. Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time.
10. That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
11. To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
12. You can commit injustice by doing nothing.
13. Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
14. Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
15. To accept without arrogance, to let it go with indifference.
16. Anger cannot be dishonest.
17. Nothing should be done without a purpose.
18. Even the smallest thing should be done with reference to an end.
19. Stick to what’s in front of you – idea, action, utterance.
20. Give yourself a gift: the present moment.
21. Glory’s an empty, changeable thing, as fickle as the weather.
22. Poverty is the mother of crime.
23. A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
24. Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
25. Our life is what our thoughts make it.
26. Nothing happens to anyone that he can’t endure.
27. Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives it.
28. Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late, the good lived yesterday.
29. To do harm is to do yourself harm. To do an injustice is to do yourself an injustice.
30. Do little, if you want contentment of mind.
31. To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
32. The present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived, if it is true that this is the only thing which he has, and that a man cannot lose something he does not already possess.
33. You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
34. Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in your power. Take away then, when you choose, your opinion, and like a mariner who has rounded the headland, you will find calm, everything stable, and a waveless bay.
35. Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
36. An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.
37. It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
38. The mind in itself has no needs, except for those it creates itself. Is undisturbed, except for its own disturbances. Knows no obstructions, except those from within.
39. Don’t let outward appearances mislead you into thinking that someone with more prestige, power or some other distinction must on that account be happy.
40. Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

⭐ Links!
📎 Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditations
📎 Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius
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