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  • #1
    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #2
    Marcus Aurelius
    “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #3
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #4
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #5
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
    Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

  • #6
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #7
    Marcus Aurelius
    “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

  • #8
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #9
    Marcus Aurelius
    “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #10
    Marcus Aurelius
    “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

  • #11
    Marcus Aurelius
    “If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #12
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #13
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #14
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
    Marcus Aurelius

  • #15
    Marcus Aurelius
    “What we do now echoes in eternity.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #16
    Marcus Aurelius
    “You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #17
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #18
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #19
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
    Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

  • #20
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #21
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: life

  • #22
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.”
    Marcus Aurelius

  • #23
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #24
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #25
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Whoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #26
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Confine yourself to the present.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #27
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming—in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the ruler within you—means a loss of opportunity for some other task.”
    Marcus Aurelius Antonius

  • #28
    Marcus Aurelius
    “How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.”
    Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), Meditations

  • #29
    Marcus Aurelius
    “All things fade and quickly turn to myth.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #30
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations



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