“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (paraphrase)
What this quote means
A widely circulated distillation of the Meditations’ central claim: since judgement is the one thing within our control, the texture of a life follows from the texture of its thinking. The exact wording is a modern rendering rather than a fixed translated line.
Common paraphrase of Meditations. Confidence: medium — flagged as paraphrase.