Nature Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“B.C.)—Stoicism stressed the search for inner peace and ethical certainty despite the apparent chaos of the external world by emulating in one’s personal conduct…

— Marcus Aurelius

“The world might rage around, yet within the Stoic’s mind, a tranquil sea prevails. The Stoic remains anchored, not carried away by the torrents…

— Kevin L. Michel

“One of the first lessons from Stoicism, then, is to focus our attention and efforts where we have the most power and then let…

— Massimo Pigliucci

“According to the Stoics, the circle of control contains just one thing: YOUR MIND.”

— Ryan Holiday

The Stoics thought that a fundamental insight into human life is that some things are up to us and others are not, the famous…

— Massimo Pigliucci

“As social beings, it is in our relationships that we have most opportunity to flourish. Indeed, the Stoics argued that our own self-interest, as…

— Donald J. Robertson

“The single most important practice in Stoic philosophy is differentiating between what we can change and what we can’t. What we have influence over…

— Ryan Holiday

“Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.” — Marcus Aurelius   Stoicism”

— Dominic Mann

“One is a careful distinction between things which are in our power and things which are not. Desire and dislike, opinion and affection, are…

— Marcus Aurelius

“(On stoicism) "As a matter of fact, the experiment has already started. Yesterday at lunch I had a smaller piece of pecan pie than…

— James Morrow

Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.

— Seneca the Younger

“Our Stoic philosophers, as you know, maintain that there are two elements in the universe from which all things are derived, namely cause and…

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca