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Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.

—Epictetus, Fragments of Epictetus
Category: WisdomMood: SereneTags: #acceptance #tranquility #fate #harmony
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Do not seek for things to happen the way you want them to; rather, wish that what happens happens the way it happens: then you will be happy.

—Epictetus, Enchiridion (The Manual of Living)
Category: WisdomMood: SereneTags: #amor-fati #surrender #tranquility #joy
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A well-ordered life is a life of lasting tranquility.

—Chanakya, Chanakya Niti
Category: MindfulnessMood: SereneTags: #order #tranquility #peace #discipline
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When there is no peace within ourselves, it is vain to seek it from without.

—Zhuangzi, The Book of Zhuangzi, Chapter 4
Category: Inner Peace & MasteryMood: ReflectiveTags: #zhuangzi #inner-peace #seeking #tranquility #solace
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Do not allow either grief or joy to enter your breast; view transformation as the natural flow of water.

—Zhuangzi, The Book of Zhuangzi, Chapter 5
Category: Inner Peace & MasteryMood: SereneTags: #zhuangzi #equanimity #transformation #flow #tranquility
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Set your mind at ease in the great openness; do not calculate advantages and disadvantages.

—Zhuangzi, The Book of Zhuangzi, Chapter 23
Category: Inner Peace & MasteryMood: SereneTags: #zhuangzi #openness #ease #letting-go #tranquility
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Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

—Seneca, De Vita Beata (On the Happy Life)
Category: ResilienceMood: SereneTags: #calm #mindset #comfort #tranquility
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Throw off anxiety and enter the haven of your own mind.

—Seneca, De Vita Beata (On the Happy Life)
Category: SpiritualityMood: SereneTags: #anxiety #haven #mind #tranquility
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