' Having Peace '...

"Ask not that events should happen as you will,

but let your will be that events should happen as they do,

and you shall have peace."




-Epictetus
Enchiridion
in Epictetus: The Discourses and Manual [Enchiridion], Together With Fragments of His Writings
Translated by P. E. Matheson
Oxford: The Clarendon Press. 1916, p. 470, at sacred-texts.com