“Many millions of people secretly feel caged by employment, marriage, and/or parenthood.” — @Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
“When conversing, some people regularly stop talking, not to listen, but to rest their tongues.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“FOR EVERY STOIC WAS A STOIC BUT WHERE IN CHRISTENDOM IS THE CHRISTIAN?” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
There are a lot of women out there who really want a manly man, and they want his stoicism. — Norah Vincent 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
It's not in the nature of stoic Cincinnatians to boast, which is fortunate, really, for they have meager pickings to boast about. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
I wished to punish her for her intolerable stoicism, which made it impossible for me to ever be truly needed by her… — Nicole Krauss 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
So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast;… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Both Stoicism and Epicureanism—. the apathetic acceptance of defeat, and the effort to forget defeat in the arms of pleasure—were theories as… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“We should remember that even Nature's inadvertence has its own charm, its own attractiveness. Take the baking of bread. The loaf splits… — 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
“Our Stoic philosophers, as you know, maintain that there are two elements in the universe from which all things are derived, namely… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
Note to self: Positive hearts reward the hearts of the pythagoras soul, yet attract the neoplatonic thoughts of our peripatetic minds in… — Jasmina Siderovski Copy Share Image
“Perhaps struggle is all we have because the god of history is an atheist, and nothing about his world is meant to… — Anonymous 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
Plotinus is usually called the Founder of Neo Platonism and what that means is that in this philosophical circle, he was founding… — Peter Adamson 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
“The philosophy asserts that virtue (meaning, chiefly, the four cardinal virtues of self-control, courage, justice, and wisdom) is happiness, and it is… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“You can't find love because you think there’s always someone better one swipe away. "You think you’re discerning? You are treating connection… — Lokesh Tuli Copy Share Image
“Loving your fate and joyful acceptance Epictetus actually describes a three-stage process to his students, which relates to the discipline of desire.… — Donald J. Robertson Copy Share Image
“Stoic ethics is a species of eudaimonism. Its central, organizing concern is about what we ought to do or be to live… — Lawrence C. Becker Copy Share Image
“Great individuals find a way to transform weakness into strength. It’s a rather amazing and even touching feat. They took what should… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“Let the tutor make his charge pass everything through a sieve and lodge nothing in his head on mere authority and trust:… — Michel de Montaigne 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
“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
“Of that imagined stoicism, that theoretical courage, not a trace was left.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I hear my silence talked of in every lane; The suppression of a cry is itself a cry of pain.” — Darshan Singh Copy Share Image
Even though you picture Russians as stoic, their language is really poetic. — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom. — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
“Well, and it is not my fault if I have not loved as one loves a concubine, since men do not.” — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
