7 Stoic Quotes on Positive Mindset
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
, Meditations 3.9 -
Very little is needed to make a happy life.
, Meditations 7.67 -
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.
, Meditations 5.16 -
Unhappy am I because this has happened to me. Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.
, Meditations 4.49 -
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
, Enchiridion 5 -
So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.
, Meditations 4.49a -
People with a strong physical constitution can tolerate extremes of hot and cold; people of strong mental health can handle anger, grief, joy and the other emotions.
, Fragments 20