Quotations on Philosophy(*)

Collected by: "Optimanage.com" Team


   
  "You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
   
   
  "Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars and see yourself running with them."
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
   
   
 
   
   
 
"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
   
   
  "If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
   
   
  "When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love..."
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
   
   
  "The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
   
   
  "Accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together but do so with all your heart."
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
   
   
  "The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
   
   
  "It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
   
   
  "Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
   
   
  "If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed."
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
   
   
  "Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?"
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
   
   
 
"I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others."
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
   
   
 
   
   
  "The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
   
   
  "Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking."
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
   
   
  "Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
   
   
  "Our life is what our thoughts make it."
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations