Here are 20 of my favorite quotes from "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius:

 Here are 20 of my favorite quotes from "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius:

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

2. "The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."

3. "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. 

Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

4. "The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."

5. "Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

6. "The mind in itself has no needs, except for those it creates itself."

7. "If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it."

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

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

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

11. "No man can escape his destiny, the next inquiry being how he may best live the time that he has to live."

12. "Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it."

13. "Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back."

14. "What we do now echoes in eternity."

15. "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."

16. "You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

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

18. "The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away."

19. "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."

20. "The man who fears death will never do anything worth of a man who is alive."