Stoic Quotes on Happiness

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Author: Epictetus
Source: Enchiridion

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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Author: Epictetus
Source: Enchiridion

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Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Author: Epictetus
Source: Enchiridion

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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Author: Epictetus
Source: Enchiridion

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If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

Author: Epictetus
Source: Discourses

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