“FOR EVERY STOIC WAS A STOIC BUT WHERE IN CHRISTENDOM IS THE CHRISTIAN?” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People compare me to Angelina Jolie, and she's so serious and stoic. I'm the opposite. — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
“The stoic contemplates fallen leaves; the epicure rakes them into a loveseat.” — Bauvard 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 essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am a bit sassy, with some sarcasm thrown into the mix, but stoic at the same time - and brash. — Mike Daniels Copy Share Image
“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It's not in the nature of stoic Cincinnatians to boast, which is fortunate, really, for they have meager pickings to boast about. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
“I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
The guy behind the counter scratches his neck. “Are you being serious?” Her face is stoic. “Absolutely. I never kid about teddy… — Jessica Sorensen Copy Share Image
“The former breathes only peace and liberty; he desires only to live and be free from labor; even the ataraxia of the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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
“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
As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that… — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
Many of us assume that we have to do things a certain way: ignore passion in favor of safer bets, act stoic… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I don't see any Stoic practice as problematic or risky, but I would advise to engage in extreme versions of the negative… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
“When people injure you, ask yourself what good or harm they thought would come of it. If you understand that, you'll feel… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“The Stoic would say that external things are a part of reality, and therefore they are neither good nor bad. Since we… — Chuck Chakrapani Copy Share Image
“I'd developed an inability to demonstrate much negative emotion at all. It was another thing that made me seem like a dick… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“The Christian stoic who has crushed his feelings is only two-thirds of a man; an important third part has been repudiated. Holy… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good… — Patricia Richardson Copy Share Image
I've intentionally played things very straight with Batman. I didn't want to be too jarring for fans. Zero Year accommodates a bit… — Greg Capullo Copy Share Image
“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Socrates was the chief saint of the Stoics throughout their history ; his attitude at the time of his trial, his refusal… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The stoic says the universe Is leagued to try the sage's virtue. If evil smites you, look for worse, And if it… — Morris Bishop Copy Share Image
He should have said something, why hadn't he? Costis wondered. In fact, the king had. He had complained at every step all… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It's easy to be foolish... It's dead simple, really. All you have to be is human and to allow yourself to do… — Alexander McCall Smith 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
I hung out with a lot of the riders to get their attitude and they're all like men. Men among boys. They… — Steve Howey Copy Share Image
[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
From forty to fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr. — Arthur Wing Pinero Copy Share Image
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image