Seneca the Younger Quotes

Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.

Life is a state of mind.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

It's all in the mind, you know.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind.

To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.

Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.

Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself.

When you find inner peace, neither the presence nor absence of any person, place or thing, condition, circumstance, or situation can be the Creator of your state of mind or the cause of your experience of being.

You have to try your best to have peace of mind, and whatever happens you know you did your best