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Marcus Aurelius

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A man's thoughts dye his soul, attributed to Marcus Aurelius
ELISABETH ELLIOT
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” �...
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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
MARCUS AURELIUS
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS
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With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT
A poor soul burdened with a corpse,' Epictetus calls you.
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It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN
The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS
When you are outraged by somebody’s impudence, ask yourself at once, “Can the world exist withou...
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONIUS
You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant....
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How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -Marcus Aurelius.
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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things ...
JAMES ALLEN
What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of t...
BUDDHA
The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.” –Marcus Aurelius...
FRANCINE JAY
Since I came an adult - for more than 45 years - Marcus Aurelius has been my great idol.
HELMUT SCHMIDT
My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra an...
KAREN DUFFY
Your life is what your thoughts make it.
MARCUS AURELIUS
A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.
MARCUS AURELIUS
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world...
BUDDHA
I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER
The way people behave. They refuse to admire their contemporaries, the people whose lives they share...
MARCUS AURELIUS
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world...
BOHDI SANDERS
Your life is merely what your thoughts and actions make it.
SCOTTIE SOMERS
I'm probably the least harsh on myself, and I try not to scrutinize everything about my body. As...
KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN
See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beaut...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with u...
C. S. LEWIS
The willing are led by fate, the reluctant are dragged.
CLEANTHES OF ASSOS
My thoughts create my world -Marcus Flutie
MEGAN MCCAFFERTY
All things were ready for us at our birth; it is we that have made everything difficult for ourselve...
FRANCINE JAY
Our thoughts, imaginations, and actions are what make us into who we are.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
The philosophy I love is very selective. It is really just the bit that is involved in a search for ...
ALAIN DE BOTTON
I had always thought, for 'Roman Empire,' I would love to do the death of Marcus Aurelius in...
ANTHONY MANN
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own ...
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Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON
There is nothing wrong and nothing right. Our teachings and thoughts make it so.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
KIERKEGAARD
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
As we observe our thoughts, it brings meaning to the experiences and we create our life
ANUPAMA GARG
With our thoughts we make the world.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
I think it's important and I think it's true that our life experience is going to be about o...
JASON MRAZ
It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN
Never ever stop dreaming. You will make it big one day. What is life without our struggles? Our stru...
AVIJEET DAS
We hope our life would have been as easy as our thoughts are.
YASMEEN KHAN
Our greatest enemy is not lurking somewhere to get us. Rather, it is our own negative thoughts. Chan...
CHRISTOPHER SHEA
I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES
Life is very easy if we are clear about our thoughts. – Shahwan SETHI
MUHAMMAD SHAHWAN TARIQ
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for...
SENECA
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA
Our thoughts create our experiences. Saying our intentions outloud focuses our thoughts. There is po...
LULU MARES
Our thoughts and dreams make this world, and reality is only as true as we perceive it to be.
 FRANCIS
I sit with Sha...
W.E.B. DU BOIS
When our mind is in shambles and we dare to reflect on the story of our life, we may discover, in th...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for...
SENECA
What really affects our thoughts is not what we hear; it's what we want to hear
HAZEM R AHMED
I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO
You REAP what You SOW: Life is like a boomerang. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner o...
GRANT M. BRIGHT
A real definition of life lies in our daily thoughts and the steps we take to or away from what is d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own exper...
SUSAN SONTAG
Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN
Subtle voices’ are those positive or negative words that are subtly spoken into our lives. These �...
D.S. MASHEGO
Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.
SITTING BULL
If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,
And Spring came the day after tomorrow,
I would die...
ALBERTO CAEIRO
The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is...
DREW BREES
Between what i see in a field and what I see in another field
There passes for a moment the fig...
ALBERTO CAEIRO
It’s an already inside outside,
The philosophers say it’s the soul
But it’s not the ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO
Do I believe a thing has limits!? Of course! Nothing exists that doesn’t have limits. Existence me...
ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS
Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO
Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.
But what does someone who hates and love...
ALBERTO CAEIRO
You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA
I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.
ALBERTO CAEIRO
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
ROGER CARAS
Life just is. What we do with our life is what makes it special and unique.
CHRISTOPHER SHEA
How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?
HENRY MARTYN
The best way to live life and get the best out of it exists only in our thoughts
CHRISTIAN CHUKWUKERE OGOKE
More important, it's because God is our only true source of life.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.
ALBERTO CAEIRO
Our thoughts shape us. We become our obsessions. Our thoughts can enslave us or save us.
KILROY J. OLDSTER
When you're a confused 19-year-old filled with questions you can't even articulate and a kin...
NIC PIZZOLATTO
Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attr...
NAPOLEON HILL
Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL
Life is full of blips and tweaks. Blips are what happens in our lives. Tweaks are the changes we mak...
LORRIN L. LEE
Our thoughts create our world.
STEPHEN RICHARDS
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
RENE DESCARTES
To dream is to allow our subconscious thoughts exceed our limitations
A-LO
Marcus was remarkable. Great players make plays for others and he made everyone around him better to...
BRANDON HEATH
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
JOHN DRYDEN
Peace is all about our decisions we make during our life. - Shahwan SETHI
MUHAMMAD SHAHWAN TARIQ
I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa...
ERIK GRIFFIN
Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st...
NEHA KOTHARI
The thoughts that we conceive in our soul are the images built later in our heart to think in our mi...
ANUJ SOMANY
We love even when our love is not requited.
MORTIMER ADLER
Whatever we focus our attention on is what will dominate our thoughts (Proverbs 23:7). If our though...
ANDREW WOMMACK
And since today’s all there is for now, that’s everything.
Who knows if I’ll be dead the ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO

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Zoilus, why do you delight in using a whole pound weight of gold for the setting of a stone, and thu...
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Remember this that very little is needed to make a happy life.
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When the crowd of your admirers is shouting, "Bravo! Hear, hear!" it is not you, Pomponius, but your...
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You see these fish carved finely in relief by Phidian art? Add water; they will swim
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When I was ill, you came to me, Doctor, and with great urgency A hundred students brought With you A...
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It is a mistake to think that Acerra reeks of yesterday's liquor: Acerra always drinks till next mor...
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Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, t...
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Rest lightly on her earth, for she trod never heavily on thee
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Do you make a grievance of weighing so many pounds only instead of three hundred? Then why fret abou...
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You say, Senca, that you were violated by robbers, but the robbers deny it
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Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily
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How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with th...
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No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams
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Nothing in nature is evil.
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It certainly is uncomfortable for everybody. It's somewhat of an anomaly. We're still in August but ...
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I think if we had the same magnitude of devastation that they had, we would be very much challenged ...
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If it does not fit leave it, if it is not true do not say it.
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To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice
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Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee
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The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere
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Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear
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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing
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I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
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Your face is black, your hair like flame, And one eye's damaged, one foot lame: If, still, you're qu...
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You ask me, Linus what my field out at Nomentum is to yield? Well this it yields to me: the view, my...
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To yield to the stronger is valor's second prize
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The height of farce it is, I ween, To be so perfumed and anointed, And when one's appetite's most ke...
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking
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Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dy...
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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys
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Why do you wrap up your neck in a woolen muffler when you are going to recite? The muffler would be ...
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I could do without your face, Chloe, and without your neck, and your hands, and your limbs, and to s...
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