It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens." Epictetus — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I will be steel! I will build a steel bridge over my need! I will build a bomb shelter over my heart!… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
If you take this life to be simply what old religious folks pretend (I mean the effete, gone to seed in a… — Henry David Thoreau 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
“Just as the sun is forever pursued by shadows, so too is our purpose chased by an unending flurry of distractions. They… — Kevin L. Michel Copy Share Image
“In the evening I came home and read about the Messina earthquake, and how the relief ships arrived, and the wretched survivors… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“It is the kind of stoicism which had been seen as characteristic of Anglo-Saxon poetry, perhaps nowhere better expressed than in 'The… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The Stoics, as we have seen, thought tranquility was worth pursuing, and the tranquility they sought, it will be remembered, is a… — William B. Irvine Copy Share Image
“The Christian is not a Stoic. Neither does he flee into a fantasy world that denies the reality of suffering.” — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“When you run up against someone else’s shamelessness, ask yourself this: Is a world without shamelessness possible? No. Then don’t ask the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
"Fate permitting" is a standard Stoic phrase meant to remind ourselves that planning things is up to us, but the ultimate outcomes… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
“We Stoics are not subjects of a despot: each of us lays claim to his own freedom.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
You had the stoic Glavine, non-emotional and not knowing what's going on. You had kind of the nerdy professor in Maddux and… — John Smoltz Copy Share Image
“If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human happiness is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh Seneca” — Will Jelbert Copy Share Image
“We are losing the art of intensity. We are losing the beauty of the struggle.” — Lokesh Tuli Copy Share Image
Even though you picture Russians as stoic, their language is really poetic. — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
The network told me to get rid of Number One, the woman first lieutenant, and also get rid of 'that Martian fellow'...… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
Even the stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
There are clearly people for whom Stoicism immediately "clicks," it comes natural, and others for whom it doesn't. Then again, Stoicism isn't… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
“When you are disturbed by events and lose your serenity, quickly return to yourself and don't stay upset longer than the experience… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
