Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it.
Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.
Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
Why do you want to read anyway – for the sake of amusement or mere erudition? Those are poor, fatuous pretexts. Reading should serve the goal of attaining peace; if it doesn’t make you peaceful, what good is it?
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
For where you find unrest, grief, fear, frustrated desire, failed aversion, jealousy and envy, happiness has no room for admittance. And where values are false, these passions inevitably follow.