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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius
Positive Thinking, Color, Soul
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.59, Modern Library

You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.

Marcus Aurelius
Soul, Needs, Asking
Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.

Marcus Aurelius
Soul, Use, Sun
Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives.

Marcus Aurelius
Peace, Soul, Mind

Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius
Character, Soul, Mind
Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.84, Penguin UK

Withdraw to the untroubled quietude deep within the soul, and refresh yourself.

Marcus Aurelius
Soul, Deep Within

The world is a living being - one nature, one soul. Keep that in mind.

Marcus Aurelius
Soul, Mind, World
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.46, Modern Library

The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul.

Marcus Aurelius
Soul, Single Life, Substance
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1906). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus”

Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were tinged with the colour and complexion of thought.

Marcus Aurelius
Thinking, Soul, Quality
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1701). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus: His Conversation with Himself”, p.74

Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind.

Marcus Aurelius
Soul, Mind, Desire
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.34, Modern Library

Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him.

Marcus Aurelius
Soul, Contentment, Doe

Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.

Marcus Aurelius
Soul, Unhappy, Causes

You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

Marcus Aurelius
Meditation, Soul, Littles
"Marcus Aurelius and His Times".

Are you distracted by outward cares? Then allow yourself a space of quiet wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. Avail yourself often, then, of this retirement, and so continually renew yourself.

Marcus Aurelius
Retirement, Space, Soul

Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things which exist; observe too the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web.

Marcus Aurelius
Soul, Perception, Causes
Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.46, Enhanced Media Publishing

"Sweep me up and send me where you please." For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as it can feel and act in harmony with its own nature. Is a change of place enough reason for my soul to become unhappy and worn, for me to become depressed, humbled, cowering, and afraid? Can you discover any reasons for this?

Marcus Aurelius
Change, Long, Soul

The soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these - that where a man can live, there - if he will - he can also live well.

Marcus Aurelius
Men, Soul, Live Well

Neither in thy actions be sluggish nor in thy conversation without method, nor wandering in thy thoughts, nor let there be in thy soul inward contention nor external effusion, nor in life be so busy as to have no leisure.

Marcus Aurelius
Soul, Leisure, Inward
Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.93, Enhanced Media Publishing

It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way.

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Giving, Soul, Doe
Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.65, Enhanced Media Publishing

Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No, the impression comes from herself, and it is her own motions which affect her. As for the contingencies of fortune, they are either great or little, according to the opinion she has of her own strength.

Marcus Aurelius
Soul, Littles, Wheels
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1887). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”

The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.

Marcus Aurelius
Soul, Pure, One Thing

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Character, Soul
Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.51, Sheba Blake Publishing

Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter.

Marcus Aurelius
Men, Past, Soul
Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.130, Enhanced Media Publishing

A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.

Marcus Aurelius
Men, Soul, Littles

In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a thing inscrutable, and fame precarious.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Men, Soul
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1920). “Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself: In English”

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