Difficulty is the foundation of growth, which is the…

The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

— Eckhart Tolle

To play down mothering as small is to crack the very foundation on which greatness stands.

— Oprah Winfrey

With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.

— Michael Chabon

“Employers pay with their money for what employees have paid for with portions of their lives.”

— @Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“An apology is usually a disguised request for a key to the cage of guilt or regret.”

— @Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Many millions of people secretly feel caged by employment, marriage, and/or parenthood.”

— @Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Quietism, Buddhism, and other religions, everything which denies the flesh—is the great inferiority to God in ourselves, an escapism seeking sanctuary through fear of…

— Austin Osman Spare

Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is…

— Seneca the Younger

“Stoic ethics is a species of eudaimonism. Its central, organizing concern is about what we ought to do or be to live well—to flourish.…

— Lawrence C. Becker

The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of…

— Blaise Pascal

“Stoicism sure comes in handy when they take away your underpants. But how to reconcile it with one's insatiable need for other people?”

— Piper Kerman

“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself, "I have to go to work - as a human being. What…

— Marcus Aurelius

“You should, I need hardly say, live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy…

— Seneca

“The areas of great interest to the Stoics all make an appearance here: virtue, mortality, emotions, self-awareness, fortitude, right action, problem solving, acceptance, mental…

— Ryan Holiday

“The wife of a junior officer cooped up in a horrible canvas partition in steerage for five months wrote: "I had enjoyed much peace…

— Stephen Taylor