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.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

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 opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

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

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.