“It is a rare blessing to see things, and to accept people, as they are.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Many millions of people secretly feel caged by employment, marriage, and/or parenthood.” — @Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I think I'm incredibly stoic. If I have a bad headache, it takes a while before I reach for a tablet. — Robert Rinder Copy Share Image
Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“At least when I bleed, it’s my own blood. At least when I fuck up, it’s my own fault. I own my… — Lokesh Tuli Copy Share Image
“Morris had been raised a Mennonite stoic in a tribe that wasn't a tribe at all, but more a failed cult whose… — David Bergen Copy Share Image
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it;… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“In his numerous historical and Scriptural works Bauer rejects all supernatural religion, and represents Christianity as a natural product of the mingling… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
“I’m stoic like a statue of Stonewall Jackson. I’d make a great U.S. President, but I’d make an even better chiseled piece… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
No doubt, much of the joy of a great romance is the moment when these stoic heroes crack open and reveal themselves… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
The essential idea of Stoicism in my interpretation is, you don't control the world around you, you control how you respond. At… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself, "I have to go to work - as a human… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Now, as never before, hundreds of millions of men and women-who had formerly believed that stoic resignation in the face of hunger… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Just as the sun is forever pursued by shadows, so too is our purpose chased by an unending flurry of distractions. They… — Kevin L. Michel Copy Share Image
“He liked the English and their peculiarities. He liked their stoicism under pressure; on the wall in his factory he kept a… — Natasha Solomons Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more interesting than repressed emotion. The appearance of sardonic coldness and stoicism which has deceived you is but a hollow… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“Deeply rooted in the universalist Western tradition of the Stoics and the the early medieval Christians, Tolkien created a myth to explore… — Bradley J. Birzer Copy Share Image
“There was a lot of pretense floating around; not just with aunties and all that but with emotions and how people saw… — Mark E. Smith Copy Share Image
“Stoic ethics is a species of eudaimonism. Its central, organizing concern is about what we ought to do or be to live… — Lawrence C. Becker Copy Share Image
“Great individuals find a way to transform weakness into strength. It’s a rather amazing and even touching feat. They took what should… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“Let the tutor make his charge pass everything through a sieve and lodge nothing in his head on mere authority and trust:… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The Stoic discipline of action, which is connected to the virtue of justice, says that we ought to treat others fairly and… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
“You can't find love because you think there’s always someone better one swipe away. "You think you’re discerning? You are treating connection… — Lokesh Tuli Copy Share Image
“Loving your fate and joyful acceptance Epictetus actually describes a three-stage process to his students, which relates to the discipline of desire.… — Donald J. Robertson Copy Share Image
But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“When conversing, some people regularly stop talking, not to listen, but to rest their tongues.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“FOR EVERY STOIC WAS A STOIC BUT WHERE IN CHRISTENDOM IS THE CHRISTIAN?” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Of that imagined stoicism, that theoretical courage, not a trace was left.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There are a lot of women out there who really want a manly man, and they want his stoicism. — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
“Stoicism for show: to be an enthusiast of nil admirari, an hysteric of ataraxia.” — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Soon, you will have forgotten everything. Soon, everybody will have forgotten you.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
