The Timeless Wisdom of Marcus Aurelius – 40 Stoic Quotes for Inner Strength

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In times of chaos, we seek peace.

In moments of doubt, we look for strength.

For centuries, the words of Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher-emperor, have guided those who wish to master themselves.

These are forty timeless Stoic lessons on calm, courage, and inner strength.

Take a deep breath… and let the wisdom speak.

40 Stoic Quotes for Inner Strength

1. You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
2. The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
3. Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
4. The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
5. If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.
6. The best revenge is to be unlike your enemy.
7. Look well into yourself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if you look there.
8. Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
9. It is not death that a man should fear, but never beginning to live.
10. You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.
11. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
12. If someone can show me I am wrong, I will gladly change. For truth is what I seek, not my ego.
13. Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny.
14. When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive.
15. Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess.
16. Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
17. If it is endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining.
18. Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
19. No man is happy who does not think himself so.
20. Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
21. The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
22. Observe constantly that all things take place by change.
23. Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
24. Do every act of your life as though it were the very last.
25. The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
26. He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
27. Confine yourself to the present.
28. When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, remember that your purpose is to serve the world.
29. It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.
30. Whatever time you choose is the right time. Not too soon, not too late.
31. Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.
32. Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly.
33. To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony.
34. Nowhere you can go is more peaceful. more free of interruptions, than your own soul.
35. Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
36. Death smiles at us all. All we can do is smile back.
37. 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.
38. Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, they will not care how devout you have been.
39. 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.
40. Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

These words have survived for nearly two thousand years.
Because truth never fade, it simply waits to be remembered.

You have just listened to the timeless wisdom of Marcus Aurelius.

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