“Being a stoic does not mean being a robot. Being a stoic means remaining calm both at the height of pleasure and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human happiness is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh Seneca” — Will Jelbert 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
The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Stoicism is a philosophy designed for the masses, and if it has to be simplified a bit to reach the masses, so… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is… — Roger Avary Copy Share Image
“The supreme ideal does not call for any external aids. It is homegrown, wholly self-developed. Once it starts looking outside itself for… — Seneca 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
“[I]ndulge the body just so far as suffices for good health. It needs to be treated somewhat strictly to prevent it from… — Seneca 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
“Seneca, the Roman moralist, called unchastity "the greatest evil of our time". In light of this pronounced deterioration of marriage, countless Roman… — Alvin J. Schmidt 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
Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I'll suggest that the happiness hypothesis offered by Buddha and the Stoics should be amended: Happiness comes from within, and happiness comes… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
My whole time on the main roster was me being a stoic bodyguard, and I was still pretty stoic during the Intercontinental… — Big E 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
“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
“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
“Stoicism, hedonism, and anarchism are, at their roots, urges for control, for the ‘I’ to dominate the other, if not the world.… — T.M. Doran 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
“Above all, the Stoics sought wisdom, a condition that I myself hope to achieve after I stop wrecking and burning things.” — James Morrow Copy Share Image
To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“All their principles are true, sceptics, stoics, atheists, etc...but their conclusions are false, because the contrary principles are also true.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Stoicism sure comes in handy when they take away your underpants. But how to reconcile it with one's insatiable need for other… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
Normal people think we're highly dependent and can't live without ongoing support, but in fact there are times when we're stoic heroes. — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
Black Bolt is typically a stoic leader, part of a larger cast of Inhumans who get their hands dirty in ways that… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
“Gary Tolan is a great man because he stands firm in his purpose, moves with integrity, and builds his life with intention—not… — Gary Tolan aka King Tolan Copy Share Image
“The Hermit of the Commonwealth. That had a solid ring to it. Stoic and aesthetic. There was only one problem with the… — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
I'm basically a stoic person anyway, so I just decided to maybe emphasise that, and I was surprised as anybody that it… — Ron Mael Copy Share Image
Reading Epictetus, I realized that most of the pain in my life came not from any actual privations or insults but, rather,… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
From here on out, there's just reality. I think that's what maturity is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
The Stoic assures us that what is happening now will happen over and over again. [If so, Providende would] ultimately grow weary… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Stoicism - and philosophy - are not the domains of idle professors. They are the succor of the successful and the men… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You had the stoic Glavine, non-emotional and not knowing what's going on. You had kind of the nerdy professor in Maddux and… — John Smoltz Copy Share Image
“Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and many others speak of dying for the law, for one’s country, one’s friends, one’s family, even for… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“When you run up against someone else’s shamelessness, ask yourself this: Is a world without shamelessness possible? No. Then don’t ask the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“No doubt they thought that by allowing themselves to become martyrs to their nerves they were giving proof of a fine stoicism,… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
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