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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.


Marcus Aurelius

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ELISABETH ELLIOT The quality of thoughts depends not on mind or heart, but on the humane words deeply embedded with c...
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ANIL GUPTA If you take care of your thoughts, they will take care of you.
LALIT BHOJWANI Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” �...
FRANCINE JAY Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every ...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every ...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON The quality of your life is dependent upon the quality and depth of the relationships that you are a...
ANIL GUPTA The quality of your life is dependent upon the quality, depth and authenticity of your relationships...
ANIL GUPTA The quality of your life is dependent upon the quality of your ability to let go and forgive.
ANIL GUPTA The quality of your life is dependent upon the quality, depth and authenticity of the relationships ...
ANIL GUPTA No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything abo...
BARBARA DE ANGELIS No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything abo...
BARBARA ANGELIS Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what yo...
DALE CARNEGIE Take care of your thoughts when you're alone and take care of your words when you're with people.
THE INSPIRATIONIST When you're a confused 19-year-old filled with questions you can't even articulate and a kin...
NIC PIZZOLATTO Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.
BISHOP STEERE Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.
GEORGE WHITEFIELD Therefore, have done with this nonsense: you have no ground for hope: dismiss, at once, these hurtfu...
ANNE BRONTë Guard your thoughts.
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LAURA MONCUR Take care of your of your life and the Lord will take of your death.
GEORGE WHITEFIELD If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind....
GAUTAMA BUDDHA I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour...
LAURENCE J. PETER Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour...
LAURENCE J. PETER You are the pilot of your life, therefore you determine your destination, and which direction will t...
DEYON ANTEKO PITTER It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of...
ANTHONY ROBBINS Be there for others but not at the cost your commited way of living.Be yourself & never allow to def...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Your beliefs affect your choices. Your choices shape your actions. Your actions determine your resul...
ROY T. BENNETT Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where...
CHRIS PRENTISS All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached ...
BARUCH SPINOZA All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached ...
BARUCH SPINOZA It is confidence which brings you closer to your dream.A dream of eventful life which is your destin...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA In the voyage of your worldly existence, the sails at which your life float upon, are tethered by th...
WILL BARNES You just need to let your adjuster know that. Tell them, 'This is the type of damage I think I see,'...
BILL MELLANDER A strong personal philosophy does more than sustain us through the tragedies of life. It also stains...
CHRIS PRENTISS The answers are never "out there." All the answers are "in there," inside you, waiting to be discove...
CHRIS PRENTISS The best way to guard your heart was to trust a good man to take care of it for you.
KRISTEN ASHLEY The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens.
CHRIS PRENTISS The key utility measure is user happiness. Speed of response and the size of the index are factors i...
CHRISTOPHER D. MANNING There is no substitute for virtue. Keep your thoughts virtuous. Rise above the filth that's all arou...
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BLINK 182 Take care of your debts and your debts will take care of you
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HARVEY MACKAY 100% of a Guru’s marketing plan depends on you holding the belief that you are not enough; that yo...
STEVE MARABOLI The quality of your ideas 'your actual thoughts' determines your success more than you think.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Stop giving other people the power to control your happiness, your mind, and your life. If you don't...
ROY T. BENNETT Your life is expensive to those who loves you, so take care of your life.
NEHA KOTHARI Take care of your words and the words will take care of you.
AMIT RAY How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -Marcus Aurelius.
MARCUS AURELIUS All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.
PAUL DICKSON Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man named Doc. And...
PAUL DICKSON Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.
PAUL DICKSON Ade's Law: Anybody can win--unless there happens to be a second entry.
PAUL DICKSON Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended it to happen.
PAUL DICKSON Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the ...
PAUL DICKSON Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.
PAUL DICKSON A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.
PAUL DICKSON Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.
PAUL DICKSON About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
PAUL DICKSON Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
PAUL DICKSON Accuracy, Rule of: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the ...
PAUL DICKSON Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of ...
PAUL DICKSON Lieutenant Dunbar wasn't really swallowed. But that was the first word that stuck in his head.
MICHAEL BLAKE A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becom...
PAUL DICKSON Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be c...
PAUL DICKSON Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time...
PAUL DICKSON Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.
PAUL DICKSON Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.
PAUL DICKSON A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
PAUL DICKSON Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.
PAUL DICKSON Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.
PAUL DICKSON Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like ...
PAUL DICKSON A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good reason and the real reason.
PAUL DICKSON A free agent is anything but.
PAUL DICKSON A poor soul burdened with a corpse,' Epictetus calls you.
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JAYSON ENGAY It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
RANDALL JARRELL It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
RANDALL JARRELL It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life
RANDALL JARRELL Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude. Happiness is in your mind, not in the circumstance.
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BRENDA VALDES Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength.
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SOKE BEHZAD AHMADI Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have rest...
MATTHEW LEWIS No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they ...
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MARCUS AURELIUS To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice
MARCUS AURELIUS Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee
MARCUS AURELIUS The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere
MARCUS AURELIUS Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear
MARCUS AURELIUS If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing
MARCUS AURELIUS I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Your face is black, your hair like flame, And one eye's damaged, one foot lame: If, still, you're qu...
MARCUS AURELIUS You ask me, Linus what my field out at Nomentum is to yield? Well this it yields to me: the view, my...
MARCUS AURELIUS To yield to the stronger is valor's second prize
MARCUS AURELIUS The height of farce it is, I ween, To be so perfumed and anointed, And when one's appetite's most ke...
MARCUS AURELIUS Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking
MARCUS AURELIUS Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dy...
MARCUS AURELIUS There is no glory in outstripping donkeys
MARCUS AURELIUS Why do you wrap up your neck in a woolen muffler when you are going to recite? The muffler would be ...
MARCUS AURELIUS I could do without your face, Chloe, and without your neck, and your hands, and your limbs, and to s...
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