"Treat what you don’t have as nonexistent. Look at what you have, the things you value most, and think of how much you’d crave them if you didn’t have them. But be careful. Don’t feel such satisfaction that you start to overvalue them —that it would upset you to lose them."

-Marcus Aurelius

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

-Marcus Aurelius ( From the book Meditations )