“The wife of a junior officer cooped up in a horrible canvas partition in steerage for five months wrote: "I had enjoyed… — Stephen Taylor Copy Share Image
“The areas of great interest to the Stoics all make an appearance here: virtue, mortality, emotions, self-awareness, fortitude, right action, problem solving,… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“You should, I need hardly say, live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell… — Seneca 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
“Stoicism sure comes in handy when they take away your underpants. But how to reconcile it with one's insatiable need for other… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go… — Blaise Pascal 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
Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Quietism, Buddhism, and other religions, everything which denies the flesh—is the great inferiority to God in ourselves, an escapism seeking sanctuary through… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
“You should … live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca 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
“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
“And here lies the essential between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was… — Oliver Burkeman 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
I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two… — Daphne Guinness 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
“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
“Above all, the Stoics sought wisdom, a condition that I myself hope to achieve after I stop wrecking and burning things.” — James Morrow 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
“He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
“You will never see me surrender, never see me cry, but you will often see me walk away. Turn around and just… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“The man who seeks comfort will find chains; the one who embraces struggle will find wings.” — David Maze Copy Share Image
