7 Stoic Quotes on Positive Mindset

  • "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 3.9

  • "Very little is needed to make a happy life." — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.67

  • "The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts." — Marcus Aurelius, 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." — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.49

  • "Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems." — Epictetus, 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." — Marcus Aurelius, 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." — Epictetus, Fragments 20