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Mind Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
- Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
- Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
- To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
- Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind,…
- Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains…
- Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.
- Nothing that goes on in anyone else's mind can harm you.
- Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.
- You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of…
- Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life.
- For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within…
- Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about.
- If you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions…
- Just consider, my friend, whether a pure spirit and virtue are anything other than saving your life and being saved. Perhaps we need to discard…
- By a tranquil mind, I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
- When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and so on. Nothing…
- Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.
- Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.
- Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.
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