“Seneca may have put it best two thousand years ago: “To be everywhere is to be nowhere.”51” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“For the Stoics, then, our judgments about the world are all that we can control, but also all that we need to… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“An apology is usually a disguised request for a key to the cage of guilt or regret.” — @Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“You must develop the ability to be disliked in order to free yourself from the prison of other peoples’ opinions.” — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I'm a stoic. When something goes down the pan, enjoy it. Make the best out of a bad job. I'm not the… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
And Father said, “There are no happy endings.” “Right!” cried Iowa Bob – an odd mixture of exuberance and stoicism in his… — John Irving 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 lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
In my mind, there is no reason why Stoicism shouldn't become as popular as Buddhism, especially in the Western world, where the… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
“There was a lot of pretense floating around; not just with aunties and all that but with emotions and how people saw… — Mark E. Smith Copy Share Image
A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To the wise, peace of mind is the result of being fine with how things are; to the foolish, the result of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Love is not the denial of power, but its highest expression. The strong love differently than the weak.” — David Maze Copy Share Image
I think I'm incredibly stoic. If I have a bad headache, it takes a while before I reach for a tablet. — Robert Rinder Copy Share Image
You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself." - Epictetus” — Dennis Crosby Copy Share Image
“You desire to LIVE "according to Nature"? Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Stoicism, hedonism, and anarchism are, at their roots, urges for control, for the ‘I’ to dominate the other, if not the world.… — T.M. Doran 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
“One of the first lessons from Stoicism, then, is to focus our attention and efforts where we have the most power and… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
“The soul of man is thus an emanation from the godhead, into whom it will eventually be re-absorbed. The divine ruling principle… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
