Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Happiness
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I can at once become happy anywhere, for he is happy who has found himself a happy lot. In a word, happiness lies all in the functions of reason, in warrantable desires and virtuous practice.
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To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
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Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.
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Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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Happiness is no other than soundness and perfection of mind.
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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.
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He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
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Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
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Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.
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A man's happiness,-to do the things proper to man.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
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No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such
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The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.
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