Topic

Thoughts

“You have power over your mind, not over outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“The soul takes on the color of your thoughts.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Very little is needed to live a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.”
Jesus of Nazareth · Gospel of Luke
“Thinking is speaking with oneself.”
Immanuel Kant · Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View
“The All is mind; the universe is mental.”
The Kybalion · The Kybalion
“Mind may be transmuted from state to state, degree to degree, pole to pole, vibration to vibration.”
The Kybalion · The Kybalion
“To change your mood, set your vibration to the degree you desire.”
The Kybalion · The Kybalion
“It is not because it is hard that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that it is hard.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca · Letters to Lucilius
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca · Letters to Lucilius
“Everyone takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
Arthur Schopenhauer · Parerga and Paralipomena
“It is not things that disturb us, but the views we take of them.”
Epictetus · Enchiridion
“Do not talk about how a good person should be. Be one.”
Epictetus · Enchiridion
“Stop arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca · Letters to Lucilius
“It is not things that trouble people, but their judgements about things.”
Epictetus · Enchiridion
“It is impossible for anyone to learn what they think they already know.”
Epictetus · Discourses
“Everyone takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
Arthur Schopenhauer · Parerga and Paralipomena
“The world is change, life is opinion.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“You can drop any tormenting thought at any moment and be at once in complete calm.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“We seldom think of what we have, but always of what we lack.”
Arthur Schopenhauer · Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life
“We talk the longest about what we do not know.”
Michel de Montaigne · Essays
“A man is literally what he thinks. His character is the sum of all his thoughts.”
James Allen · As a Man Thinketh