“Count your years and you'll be ashamed to be wanting and working for exactly the same things as you wanted when you were a boy. Of this one thing make sure against your dying day - that your faults die before you do. Have done with those unsettled pleasures, which cost one dear - they do one harm after they're past and gone, not merely when they're in prospect. Even when they're over, pleasures of a depraved nature are apt to carry feelings of dissatisfaction, in the same way as a criminal's anxiety doesn't end with the commission of the crime, even if it's undetected at the time. Such pleasures are insubstantial and unreliable; even if they don't do one any harm, they're fleeting in character. Look around for some enduring good instead. And nothing answers this description except what the spirit discovers for itself within itself. A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness. Even if some obstacle to this comes on the scene, its appearance is only to be compared to that of clouds which drift in front of the sun without ever defeating its light.” CharacterHappinessPleasure Book:Letters from a Stoic Source: Letters from a Stoic
“What pleasure is there in seeing new lands? Or in surveying cities and spots of interest? All your bustle is useless. Do you ask why such flight does not help you? It is because you flee along with yourself. You must lay aside the burdens of the mind; until you do this, no place will satisfy you. [...] The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.” HappinessTravelPeace Of MindRestlessness Book:Letters from a Stoic Source: Letters from a Stoic
“If god adds the morrow we should accept it joyfully. The man who looks for the morrow without worrying over it knows a peaceful independence and a happiness beyond all others.” PhilosophyHappinessTomorrowStoicism Book:Why I am a Stoic Source: Why I am a Stoic
“A man is as wretched as he has convinced himself that he is. Therefore do away with complaint about past sufferings and with all language like this: "None has ever been worse off than I. What sufferings, what evils have I endured!" after all, what point is there in being unhappy, just because once you were unhappy.” HappinessMental HealthAccpetance Author:Seneca