The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
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Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.
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You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
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Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.
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All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.
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When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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Do not be ashamed of help.
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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