Stoicism Quotes
22 quotes by 19 authors
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But the people of the disaster area fundamentally needed to understand that the rest of Australia had noticed their misery and their stoicism and their…
— Peter Cosgrove
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness…
— Marquis de Sade
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Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a Christian. To seek…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.
— Seneca the Younger
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Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.
— Euripides
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He who despises life is his life's master.
— Pierre Corneille
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The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
— Colin Wilson
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And Father said, “There are no happy endings.†“Right!†cried Iowa Bob – an odd mixture of exuberance and stoicism in his cracked voice. “Death…
— John Irving
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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you…
— Marcus Aurelius
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The network told me to get rid of Number One, the woman first lieutenant, and also get rid of 'that Martian fellow'... meaning, of course,…
— Gene Roddenberry
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With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.
— Michael Chabon
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I wished to punish her for her intolerable stoicism, which made it impossible for me to ever be truly needed by her in the most…
— Nicole Krauss
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I find that the only way to get through life is to picture myself in an entirely disconnected reality. I often imagine how people would…
— Joe Dunthorne
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A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them…
— Walt Whitman
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The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your…
— Roger Avary
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Note to self: Positive hearts reward the hearts of the pythagoras soul, yet attract the neoplatonic thoughts of our peripatetic minds in a stoicism world;…
— Jasmina Siderovski
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History happened, but yet we quarrel over this so much we're in war about what happened yesterday. We seem to hold onto these ideas, that…
— Jeremy Limn
Who Wrote These Stoicism Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 22 Stoicism Quotes as follows: