Quotes by Marcus Aurelius

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

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.