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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

Marcus Aurelius

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Meditations
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c. 170
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Meric Casaubon — Translator · from Ancient Greek
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Meaning of “The happiness of your life depends upon the…”

The line emphasizes the role of habitual judgment in shaping lived experience, a recurring theme in Stoic practice.

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Common English rendering of a passage in Meditations; wording varies by translation.

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“God's in his heaven—All's right with the world!”

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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Nature · 1836
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