“An apology is usually a disguised request for a key to the cage of guilt or regret.” — @Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.” — Seneca” — Paul Jun Copy Share Image
I can be very stoic looking, that's just my facial expression. I don't smile a lot. — Robert Parish 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
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
A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two… — Daphne Guinness 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“The Stoic makes no differentiation between a small act of kindness by a simple person and a great act of virtue from… — Marcus Aurelius 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
If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 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
“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
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
“Each of us is impermanent wave of energy folded into the infinite cosmic order. Acknowledgement of the fundamental impermanence of ourselves unchains… — Kilroy J. Oldster 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
“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
“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
“he saw and recognised the visible and he sought his place in this world. He did not seek reality; his goal was… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“We live life passively whenever we are not practicing mindfulness.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
“It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“A child is one of the most common results of the lack or loss of self-control.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Life is yet to produce someone who is loved by or important to everyone.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image