Quotes About Tranquility

No hay que irritarse con las cosas, pues a ellas nada les importa

Her ÅŸey düÅŸüncenin verdiÄŸi biçimi al?r. Ve düÅŸüncenizin kontrolü sizin elinizdedir. Dolay?s?yla yarg?lar?n?z? ortadan kald?rmaya karar verdiÄŸinizde huzura kavuÅŸursunuz. T?pk?, burnu dolaÅŸan bir denizcinin sakin suya, dalgas?z bir koya eriÅŸmesi gibi.

A man cannot any whither retire better than to his own soul;

Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time and tranquility. Ask yourself at every moment, Is this necessary?

No retreat offers someone more quiet and relaxation than that into his own mind, especially if he can dip into thoughts there which put him at immediate and complete ease: and by ease I simply mean a well-ordered life. So constantly give yourself this retreat, and renew yourself. The doctrines you will visit there should be few and fundamental, sufficient at one meeting to wash away all your pain and send you back free of resentment at what you must rejoin.

Accept humbly: let go easily.

Let not future things disturb thee, for thou wilt come to them, if it shall be necessary, having with thee the same reason which now thou usest for present things.

To accept it without arrogance, to let it go with indifference. (8.33)

And if all men refuse to believe that he lives a simple, modest, and contented life, he is neither angry with any of them, nor does he deviate from the way which leads to the end of life, to which a man ought to come pure, tranquil, ready to depart, and without any compulsion perfectly reconciled to his lot.

But among the things readiest to thy hand to which thou shalt turn, let there be these, which are two. One is that things do not touch the soul, for they are external and remain immovable; but our perturbations come only from the opinion which is within. The other is that all these things, which thou seest, change immediately and will no longer be; and constantly bear in mind how many of these changes thou hast already witnessed. The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

O imagination, go away, I intreat thee by the gods, as thou didst come, for I want thee not. But thou art come according to thy old fashion. I am not angry with thee: only go away.

If you can cut free of impressions that cling to the mind, free of the future and the past—can make yourself, as Empedocles says, "a sphere rejoicing in its perfect stillness," and concentrate on living what can be lived (which means the present) Ã¢â'¬Â¦ then you can spend the time you have left in tranquillity. And in kindness. And at peace with the spirit within you.

They seek for themselves private retiring places, as country villages, the sea-shore, mountains; yea thou thyself art wont to long much after such places. But all this thou must know proceeds from simplicity in the highest degree. At what time soever thou wilt, it is in thy power to retire into thyself, and to be at rest, and free from all businesses.

A man who has put first his own mind and divinity, and worships the supremacy of the god within him, makes no drama of his life, no hand-wringing, no craving for solitude or crowds:

Marcus Aurelius

that Equanimity is the voluntary acceptance of the things which are assigned to thee by the common nature;

People try to get away from it all—to the country, to the beach, to the mountains. You always wish that you could too. Which is idiotic: you can get away from it anytime you like. By going within.

Wipe out thy imaginations by often saying to thyself: Now it is in my power to let no badness be in this soul, nor desire, nor any perturbation at all; but looking at all things I see what is their nature, and I use each according to its value.—Remember this power which thou hast from nature.

The Stoics regarded speculation as a means to an end and that end was, as Zeno put it, to live consistently or as it was later explained, to live in conformity with nature.

The closer a person is to calm, the closer they are to strength.

The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.

When forced, as it seems, by thine environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into thy self, staying in discord no longer than thou must. By constant recurrence to the harmony, thou wilt gain more command over it.

Habite en ti la serenidad, la ausencia de necesidad de ayuda externa y de la tranquilidad que procuran otros. Conviene, por consiguiente, mantenerse recto, no enderezado.

Occupy thyself with few things, says the philosopher, if thou wouldst be tranquil.-