"Very little is needed to make a happy life" — Marcus Aurelius

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

Meditations, Book VII, 67

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Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things.

Enchiridion, Chapter V

Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourself.

Discourses, Book I

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

Discourses, Book 4