“The stoic contemplates fallen leaves; the epicure rakes them into a loveseat.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
“Everything worthwhile in your life draws its meaning from the fact you will die.” — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it. — Mary Catherwood Copy Share Image
“We all die having lived a full life, even those who die while they are being born.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.” — Marcus Aurelius Stoicism” — Dominic Mann Copy Share Image
“philosophers”—the ancient Stoics—even if they’d never read them.* They had the” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
I also think there is a wisdom and strength in that generation [of our parents], in terms of getting through difficult times,… — James Redford Copy Share Image
“For in this Case, we are not to give Credit to the Many, who say, that none ought to be educated but… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all; and to “burst” with boldness and good-will into “the silent sea” of their souls is… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Stoicism is of no use to me whatsoever. What I'm a big believer in is talking about everything until you're blue in… — David Shields Copy Share Image
Let a stoic open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to separate the art of living from the art of dying, because to be living is to be dying.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Stoic tranquility was a psychological state marked by the absence of negative emotions, such as grief, anger, and anxiety, and the presence… — William B. Irvine Copy Share Image
“The Sage desires only one thing, virtue, and he is cautious about only one thing, vice. He is the same in every… — Donald J. Robertson Copy Share Image
See, I don’t expect to win a prize for stoic control and dignity at mourning time. Death deserve tantrums. Beating back shocked… — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humaneness is nothing… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Plotinus is usually called the Founder of Neo Platonism and what that means is that in this philosophical circle, he was founding… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
“There is, I assure you, a medical art for the soul. It is philosophy, whose aid need not be sought, as in… — Cicero Copy Share Image
“The Stoic discovers the model for his virtuous conduct in studying the laws of nature; just as each object, plant, and animal… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“The Stoic makes no differentiation between a small act of kindness by a simple person and a great act of virtue from… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“You are still on your own; be stoic; don't panic; get through this hell to the generous sweet overflowing GIVING love of… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“The philosophy asserts that virtue (meaning, chiefly, the four cardinal virtues of self-control, courage, justice, and wisdom) is happiness, and it is… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“The Stoics taught a life of restraint and control, the personal cultivation of learning, beauty, and reason. The Stoics asked the Romans… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
But the people of the disaster area fundamentally needed to understand that the rest of Australia had noticed their misery and their… — Peter Cosgrove Copy Share Image
At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided… — Svante Arrhenius Copy Share Image
“He strove for the diapason, the great song that should embrace in itself a whole epoch, a complete era, the voice of… — Frank Norris Copy Share Image
“In the evening I came home and read about the Messina earthquake, and how the relief ships arrived, and the wretched survivors… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“He who waits for permission to live will find himself buried with the others who did the same.” — David Maze Copy Share Image
Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the "stiff upper lip" school of thought. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“The man who seeks comfort will find chains; the one who embraces struggle will find wings.” — David Maze Copy Share Image
“We live life passively whenever we are not practicing mindfulness.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” - Epictetus By” — Ali Martine Copy Share Image
“It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“A child is one of the most common results of the lack or loss of self-control.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
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