Bounds Quote by Marcus Aurelius Download Open image “Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness.” — Marcus Aurelius ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bounds Failing Inspirational Mind Psychology Sadness Unhappiness
“A Course in Miracles rightly points out that, whenever you are unhappy, there is the unconscious belief that the unhappiness “buys” you what you want. If “you” — the mind — did not believe that unhappiness works, why would you create it? The fact is, of course, that negativity does not work. Instead of attracting a desirable condition, it stops… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
I've spent most of my life trying to think my way to happiness, and my failure to achieve that goal only proves, in my… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
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… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves. — William James Copy Share Image
Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. — Don Herold Copy Share Image
“There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. To have lost one's self-respect: that is what unhappiness is.… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“We should remark the grace and fascination that there is even in the incidentals of Nature's processes.. When a loaf of bread,. for instance,.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“If therefore it be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the atmosphere, timidly… — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Copy Share Image
Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count the times, but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance." We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share
If the civil magistrate be a Christian, a disciple or follower of the meek Lamb of God, he is bound to be far from… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
We have committed ourselves to pursue joint policies, but then national governments say, "We aren't bound by that." That is a dramatic situation, because… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
The World's a Printing-House, our words, our thoughts, Our deeds, are characters of several sizes. Each soul is a Compos'tor, of whose faults The Levites are Correctors; Heaven Revises. Death is the common Press, from whence being driven, We're gather'd, Sheet by Sheet, and bound for Heaven. — Francis Quarles Copy Share
Christian obligation cannot be made to accord with a law of expediency. The Christian's maxims are, Do right because you are bound to do… — Francis Landey Patton Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
'You spin in the sky, the world spins under you, and you step from land to land, while we . . .' She turned… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free. — Vinoba Bhave Copy Share Image
Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth,… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
