“The stoic contemplates fallen leaves; the epicure rakes them into a loveseat.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
“Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.” — Marcus Aurelius Stoicism” — Dominic Mann Copy Share Image
“philosophers”—the ancient Stoics—even if they’d never read them.* They had the” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it. — Mary Catherwood Copy Share Image
“We all die having lived a full life, even those who die while they are being born.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“He who waits for permission to live will find himself buried with the others who did the same.” — David Maze Copy Share Image
“We live life passively whenever we are not practicing mindfulness.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
“The women who are matter-of-fact, or stoic, as they undergo this procedure far outnumber those who are anxious or tearful.” — Willie Parker Copy Share Image
With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Does Christ commend the famous 'apathy' of the Stoic or the Buddhist elimination of desire? Far from it. The issue is not… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Do not be interested in the quantity of people who respect and admire you, but in their quality. If bad people dislike… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I'm a really stoic artist. I'm serious a lot of times. I can joke and play sometimes, but most of the time,… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Begin at once to live and count each day a separate life time.” - Seneca “Our lives are the sum total of… — Wayne Dyer 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
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 Sage desires only one thing, virtue, and he is cautious about only one thing, vice. He is the same in every… — Donald J. Robertson Copy Share Image
Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humaneness is nothing… — Marquis de Sade 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
“He liked the English and their peculiarities. He liked their stoicism under pressure; on the wall in his factory he kept a… — Natasha Solomons 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
“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
“Bohr is really doing what the Stoic allegorists did to close the gap between their world and Homer's, or what St. Augustine… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“I have always swung back and forth between alienation and relatedness. As a child, I would run away from the beatings, from… — Wendy Rose 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
“Now this was possible only by a man determining himself entirely *rationally* according to concepts, not according to changing impressions and moods.… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The Stoics define wisdom to be conducted by reason, and folly nothing else but the being hurried by passion, lest our life… — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus Copy Share Image
Before the 3rd century you're having several philosophical schools still as a going concern. You have not only the Platonists and the… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
“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
“Submission, when it is submission to the truth — and when the truth is known to be both beautiful and merciful —… — Gai Eaton Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi Copy Share Image
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” - Epictetus By” — Ali Martine Copy Share Image
“The man who seeks comfort will find chains; the one who embraces struggle will find wings.” — David Maze 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 most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.” — Seneca” — Paul Jun Copy Share Image
Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image