“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.“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.”.“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.”.“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury”.Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.“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.”.If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.” If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. Realize this, and you will find strength.” “You have power over your mind – not outside events.Though he was so wise I had to make it Top Twenty Conflict Tips: Having just posted one great quote from the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (CE 121-180) I thought I would add one of our Top Ten Conflict Tips based on his thinking in his famous book ‘Meditations’.
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