Stoicism Quote by Piper Kerman Download Open image ““Stoicism sure comes in handy when they take away your underpants.”” — Piper Kerman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Stoicism
“Stoicism sure comes in handy when they take away your underpants. But how to reconcile it with one's insatiable need for other people?” — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
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“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
“Do not fear facing people without your pants; the world is dirtier than your underwear.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“Stoicism is about Joy, Serenity, Meaning and Purpose. It is about being a useful and important member of society.” — Patrick Ussher Copy Share Image
“Pride will tell you, you don't need crutches, but humility is more powerful than pride.” — Lorilyn Roberts Copy Share Image
“Being a stoic does not mean being a robot. Being a stoic means remaining calm both at the height of pleasure and the depths… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I looked down at the doors of the forbidden Dorms and studiously examined the bulletin boards covered with incomprehensible information about events and rules… — Piper Kerman 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 people?” — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“Some of the mothers looked overwhelmed - they were no longer accustomed to supervising their own kids in a normal, day-to-day way.” — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“The female guard in R&D explained that they had no women's street clothes, so she gave me the smallest pair of men's jeans they… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“I had forgotten about the pleasures of college radio, the exquisite randomness of what got played, the twenty-minute between-songs banter of nineteen-year-olds, the smack… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“I had long recognized that faith helped people understand their relationship to their community. In the best cases it helped women in Danbury focus… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.” — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“If he is a half-decent human being, he will find himself the object of crushes. If he is a cocky bastard, even more so.” — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“If you had the misfortune of having the government intimately involved with your life, whether via public housing or Medicaid or food stamps, then… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the world, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“He told us that it was important to eat right, exercise, and treat your body as a temple. But he didn't tell us how… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“According to the CDC, cigarettes kill over 435,000 people a year in the United States. Most of us in Danbury were locked away for… — Piper Kerman 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 much peace… — Stephen Taylor Copy Share Image
“The areas of great interest to the Stoics all make an appearance here: virtue, mortality, emotions, self-awareness, fortitude, right action, problem solving, acceptance, mental… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“You should, I need hardly say, live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself, "I have to go to work - as a human being. What… — Marcus Aurelius 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 people?” — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Stoic ethics is a species of eudaimonism. Its central, organizing concern is about what we ought to do or be to live well—to flourish.… — Lawrence C. Becker Copy Share Image
Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is… — Seneca the Younger 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 fear of… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
“You should … live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca 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 indignation, kicks… — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
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