Choice Quote by Seneca the Younger Download Open image “No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing.” — Seneca the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Choice Choices Dressings Kind Maxims Practice Stoicism Window Window dressing
“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 Copy Share Image
I've gotten a lot of comfort from the philosophy of the Roman Stoics. For me, one of the most powerful ideas of Stoicism is that you can't pick or choose in the world what you want to happen and what you don't want to happen, and that actually if you did get to choose, the version you would come up… — Elif Batuman Copy Share
“We all believe we can choose our own path from among the many alternatives. But perhaps it's more accurate to say that we make the choice unconsciously. I think I did--but now I knew it, because now I was able to put it into words. But I don't mean this in the fatalistic sense; we're constantly making choices. With the… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share
Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them. — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Abundant choice doesn't force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those things we… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision. — Gary Collins Copy Share Image
Every choice I've ever made has been dictated by a formless hunch rather than by strict logic. — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“Exactly. So, what can't you take? Decide which of the two options is harder, and do the other. That way, no matter how hard… — Josephine Angelini Copy Share Image
You dont choose your life; it chooses you. Theres no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There has always been a feeling with people that they love my singing but not always the choice of material. — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Since I don't outline my books very much, I feel like sometimes I don't have a choice in what the characters do; they just… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
Words can only have an effect on you if you choose to listen to them. — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
