The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.
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Disgraceful: for the soul to give up when the body is still going strong.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness.
A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.
The existence of evil does not harm the world. And an individual act of evil does not harm the victim. Only one person is harmed by it - and he can stop being harmed as soon as he decides to.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly.
If you are distressed by anything, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it.
You should banish any thoughts of how you may appear to others.
