Marcus Aurelius

He who fears death fears either the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if you shall have no sensation, neither will you feel any harm; and if you shall acquire another kind of sensation, you will be a different kind of living being, and you will not cease to live.

You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.

The best way to avenge yourself is to not be like the one who wronged you.

The only thing that isn't worthless is to live this life out as yourself, and to make truth and justice your only aim.

Every moment of your life, act as though it were your last.

To live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretense.

The tranquility that comes when you stop caring what they say. Or think, or do. Only what you do.

If you are pained by any external thing, it is not the thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now.

Don't be ashamed to need help. You have a duty to fulfill just like a soldier on the wall of battle. So what if you're injured and can't climb up without another soldier's help?

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

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Choose not to be harmed - and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed - and you haven't been.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in that it stands ready against fatal blows and moves at speed.