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“For the Stoics, then, our judgments about the world are all that we can control, but also all that we need to control in…

— Oliver Burkeman

“The philosophy asserts that virtue (meaning, chiefly, the four cardinal virtues of self-control, courage, justice, and wisdom) is happiness, and it is our perceptions…

— Ryan Holiday

“The Stoic would say that external things are a part of reality, and therefore they are neither good nor bad. Since we don’t control…

— Chuck Chakrapani

“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

“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

“The Stoic discovers the model for his virtuous conduct in studying the laws of nature; just as each object, plant, and animal serves its…

— Marcus Aurelius

“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

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

— Ryan Holiday

The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact…

— Roger Avary

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

— Seneca the Younger

“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

“(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