Death itself is a natural occurrence, it is unavoidable, and the Stoics thought that part of philosophical practice is to get comfortable… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic… — William James Copy Share Image
“We might never rid ourselves of a lingering anxiety regarding our death; this is a kind of tax we pay in return… — Derren Brown 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
Valour and glory are a ponderous virtue. As to say, both virtues are stoic traits. Two words, that are complex but these… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“If you have assumed any character beyond your strength, you have both demeaned yourself ill in that and quitted one which you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.” Epictetus” — Change Your Life Publishing Copy Share Image
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it;… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“The world might rage around, yet within the Stoic’s mind, a tranquil sea prevails. The Stoic remains anchored, not carried away by… — Kevin L. Michel Copy Share Image
“To me, the persistence of my grandfather's rituals meant that he was unchanged, running on discipline and continuance and stoicism. I didn't… — Téa Obreht Copy Share Image
I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“What would Heracles have been if he had said, "How am I to prevent a big lion from appearing, or a big… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
History happened, but yet we quarrel over this so much we're in war about what happened yesterday. We seem to hold onto… — Jeremy Limn 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
Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old… — Thomas Hobbes 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 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
A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows… — Charles Caleb Colton 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 is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, "That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults." Common… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Even the busiest bee does not move from one flower to another as often as an untamed mind moves from one thought… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens." Epictetus — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself." - Epictetus” — Dennis Crosby Copy Share Image
“Of that imagined stoicism, that theoretical courage, not a trace was left.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Stoicism is of no use to me whatsoever. What I'm a big believer in is talking about everything until you're blue in… — David Shields Copy Share Image
“Everything worthwhile in your life draws its meaning from the fact you will die.” — Derren Brown 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
