8 Stoic Quotes on Inner Peace

  • Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

    — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.3

  • To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it.

    — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.49

  • 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.

    — Epictetus, Enchiridion 8

  • Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

    — Seneca, Moral Letters 81.19

  • 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?

    — Epictetus, Discourses 4.4

  • Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

    — Epictetus, Enchiridion 5

  • The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

    — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 3.9

  • 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.

    — Epictetus, Discourses 3.22