[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Even though you picture Russians as stoic, their language is really poetic. — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
From forty to fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr. — Arthur Wing Pinero Copy Share Image
I can be very stoic looking, that's just my facial expression. I don't smile a lot. — Robert Parish Copy Share Image
“He would bear the weight of the inevitable in the same stoic manner he had borne it before, etched indelibly into the… — Eva Vanrell Copy Share Image
“The single most important practice in Stoic philosophy is differentiating between what we can change and what we can’t. What we have… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it. — Seneca the Younger 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
“T he single most important practice in Stoic philosophy is differentiating between what we can change and what we can’t.” — Ryan Holiday 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
“Whenever you undertake an activity in which public failure is a possibility, you are likely to experience butterflies in your stomach. I… — William B. Irvine 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
“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
“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
Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The main thing was finding this... voice that I had interest in, which I'll call the quiet-yet-stoic voice: the very quiet yet… — Gillian Welch 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
“One is a careful distinction between things which are in our power and things which are not. Desire and dislike, opinion and… — Marcus Aurelius 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
The best CEOs in our research display tremendous ambition for their company combined with the stoic will to do whatever it takes,… — James C. Collins 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
“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
“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
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 was a famous Stoic ‘paradox’ that the Sage is believed to be absolutely free, even when imprisoned or exiled by a… — Donald J. Robertson 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
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — Anonymous 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
“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
I've always been in love with samurais, that kind of classic idea about a hero who has a sword with an intense… — Genndy Tartakovsky Copy Share Image
“What people think of me is none of my business. Rodney Crowell paraphrasing the Greek Stoic Philosopher, Epictetus 55-135 AD” — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
“We are a stoic, reserved bunch who hide our emotions well - except when reading a terribly sad or poignant story, of… — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image