To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but by your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.

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

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life - there, if one must speak out, the real man.