Marcus Aurelius

Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.
-Marcus Aurelius

Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.
-Marcus Aurelius

Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.
-Marcus Aurelius

Failing to understand the workings of one’s own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness.
-Marcus Aurelius

Whosoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whosoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.
-Marcus Aurelius

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.
-Marcus Aurelius

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.
-Marcus Aurelius

Live each day as if it be your last.
-Marcus Aurelius

Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?
-Marcus Aurelius

To expect an impossibility is madness.
– Marcus Aurelius