Blog — Quotes
2 quotes on identity + detachment + self-improvement
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny—it is the light that guides your way.
Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do.
Self-indulgence means tying it to things that happen to you.
Sanity means tying it to your own actions.
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny—it is the light that guides your way.
Added in 2026
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- Ignoring what goes on in other people’s souls—no one ever came to grief that way. But if you won…Marcus Aurelius
Added in 2026
Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do.
Self-indulgence means tying it to things that happen to you.
Sanity means tying it to your own actions.
Added in 2026
Along the same lines
- The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with you…Heraclitus
- Coloran essay
- The Fear of Missing Outan essay
- The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts t…William Arthur Ward
- The human soul degrades itself above all, when it does its best to become an abscess, a kind of…Marcus Aurelius
- Whatever this is that I am, it is flesh and a little spirit and an intelligence. Throw away your…Marcus Aurelius
- Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been. It c…Marcus Aurelius
- Ignoring what goes on in other people’s souls—no one ever came to grief that way. But if you won…Marcus Aurelius
Added in 2026