A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control.

If you are easily provoked you are easily controlled.

Be an island of calm in the sea of craziness.

To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

It is not daily increase but daily decrease, hack away the unessential. The closer to the source, the less wastage there is.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you.

Be present above all else.

You will eventually die and the world will keep moving.

Don't allow yourself to be heard any longer griping about public life, not even with your own ears! Marcus Aurelius

Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.

Amor fati - "Love your fate", which is in fact your life.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.