Marcus Aurelius

"A happy life depends on very little."

"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

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

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

"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."

"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."

"Our life is what our thoughts make it."

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

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

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."

"A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions."

"Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone else to accomplish."

"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too."

"Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life."

"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."

"Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets."

"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."

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together."