Daily quote from Marcus Aurelius:

Below are the daily Marcus Aurelius quotes posted to Linkedin and Twitter so far.

Last updated on Thursday 04th April 2013

“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”

“Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.”

“Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.”

“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”

“Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.”

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

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”

“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.”

“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”

“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ”

“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.”

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”