Marcus Aurelius Reality Quotes

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

- Marcus Aurelius

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly.

- Marcus Aurelius

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

- Marcus Aurelius

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

- Marcus Aurelius

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.

- Marcus Aurelius

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.

- Marcus Aurelius

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

- Marcus Aurelius

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- 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

- Marcus Aurelius

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Marcus Aurelius

On the internet, you can never be quite sure who said what

- Jessica Valenti

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

- Epictetus

The frog in the well knows nothing of the sea

- Japanese Proverbs

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

- Marcel Proust

The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.

- Anonymous

Every battle first won in mind, then in reality

- Anonymous

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

- Ram dass

The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.

- Kahlil Gibran

Time and tide wait for none.

- Anonymous