Marcus Aurelius

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

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

“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.” 

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

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

“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.” 

Marcus Aurelius