As a political spouse, I've found that my stoicism often serves me well. — Jill Biden Copy Share Image
“We are good to others only because we think that that is, or will be, good for us.” — 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
“Everything worthwhile in your life draws its meaning from the fact you will die.” — Derren Brown 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
“philosophers”—the ancient Stoics—even if they’d never read them.* They had the” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“The former breathes only peace and liberty; he desires only to live and be free from labor; even the ataraxia of the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.'… — Francis Bacon 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
“It is a great man that can treat his earthenware as if it was silver, and a man who treats his silver… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca 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
Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
“You're sitting there vibrating with 'talent' while the swine are out there eating the crop! Potential is for weaklings and politicians! It… — 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
Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions… — H. L. Mencken 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
Kant has been famous for his rejection of eudaimonism, but I think Kantian ethics has a great deal in common with Aristotle,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The Stoics appear during a huge time of constant wars and real political strife. And it became very popular, I think, because… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
“You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgement, and to possess a large room for… — Marcus Aurelius 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
“According to Bertrand Russell, the virtuous stoic was one whose will was in agreement with the natural order. He described the basic… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“The Stoics taught a life of restraint and control, the personal cultivation of learning, beauty, and reason. The Stoics asked the Romans… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
But the people of the disaster area fundamentally needed to understand that the rest of Australia had noticed their misery and their… — Peter Cosgrove Copy Share Image
At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided… — Svante Arrhenius Copy Share Image
“Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than… — Robert G. Ingersoll 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
“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
But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.” — Marcus Aurelius Stoicism” — Dominic Mann Copy Share Image
“Stoicism for show: to be an enthusiast of nil admirari, an hysteric of ataraxia.” — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Soon, you will have forgotten everything. Soon, everybody will have forgotten you.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“The stoic contemplates fallen leaves; the epicure rakes them into a loveseat.” — Bauvard 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
