“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” — Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly.” — Marcus Aurelius · Meditations, Book 2
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.” — Marcus Aurelius · Meditations, Book 4
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.” — Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.” — Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.” — Marcus Aurelius · Meditations