Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul.

Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one's soul.

And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?

I don't ever feel the need to escape.

All I want is to live a peaceful life, to regain my life and be happy.

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

In this life, we are in a constant search for inner peace. We long for it in all aspects of our lives, both personally and professionally. The truth is that we cannot have inner peace without balance. It seems that having too much or too little of anything completely throws off our balance, therefore limiting our inner peace.

I guess I like who I am now. I'd just like to have a little more internal peace. I'm sure everybody would.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change other, but by simply accepting them as they are. True acceptance is always without demands and expectations.

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

I'm so lucky to be crazy happy in my life. And I think it's not so much that I'm happier now than ever; it's that I'm more content. I'm in the harbor of my life.

Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.

Real peace is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep inner peace.

I really believe that happiness comes from things that cannot taken away from you.

Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.

Peace is the altar of God, the condition in which happiness exists.

There is no higher happiness than peace.

Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.

When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.

There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness.

As I've gotten older, I've really wanted to find more balance and calm.

I realised that you can go through times of extreme happiness, but if that happiness is not coming from a deeply rooted place, you will also be going through extreme lows of sadness.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.