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6,917	“Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not.”	stoicism
7,399	“That you are about to bury or have just buried your loved one does not make you and your loved ones immortal for a while.”	stoicism
7,111	“Don't waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people- unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful.”	stoicism
7,245	“Living is the outside of dying.”	stoicism
6,832	“Maximum remedium est irae mora.”	stoicism
7,470	“I’ve let people’s opinions, my own self judgements and many negative things take this life away from me. No more!”	stoicism
7,129	“Life cannot, not even for a millisecond, remain exactly how it is.”	stoicism
7,330	“We have, not problems, but negative attitudes towards some situations (towards which some people have or would have positive attitudes).”	stoicism
7,096	“Just as chickens wake up and scream, being reborn is the polar opposite. You are blinded by bliss and numb to such pain.”	stoicism
7,538	“There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and the number of problems we have.”	stoicism
7,505	“[T]reat your inferiors in the way in which you would like to be treated by your own superiors.”	stoicism
6,910	“We should refrain from attempting to change things to fit our narrative of explaining the world, and start changing this narrative to better host the things we experience.”	stoicism
6,984	“If it should ever happen to you to be turned to externals in order to please some person, you must know that you have lost your purpose in life.”	stoicism
7,204	“The mind, unconquered by violent passions, is a citadel, for a man has no fortress more impregnable in which to find refuge and remain safe forever.”	stoicism
7,660	“Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.”	stoicism
7,492	“Disgraceful if, in this life where your body does not fail, your soul should fail you first.”	stoicism
7,087	“Unlearning makes learning at least three times longer than necessary.”	stoicism
6,801	“Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions — not outside.”	stoicism
7,439	“The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can’t lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don’t have?”	stoicism
7,054	“Well begun is half done. This is something that depends on the mind; so when one is willing to become good, goodness is in large part achieved.”	stoicism
7,074	“Most adults make adulthood seem like a disease that is caused by a deficiency of playfulness.”	stoicism
7,198	“What does it mean to be getting an education? It means learning to apply natural preconceptions to particular cases as nature prescribes, and distinguishing what is in our power from what is not.”	stoicism
7,246	“You have not yet reaped the sweetest fruits of meditation, if you still do not meditate only to meditate.”	stoicism
7,055	“Prosperity is a restless thing; it drives itself to distraction. It addles the brain, and not always in the same way, for it goads people in different directions—some toward power, others toward self-indulgence. Some are puffed up by it, others unmanned and made entirely feeble.”	stoicism
6,913	“The world is asking us the questions, and it couldn’t care less what we expect from it. But here’s the good news: real meaning doesn’t come from what the world gives you, but how you respond to it.”	stoicism
7,193	“Our caring about what others think about us is one of the pillars of the economy.”	stoicism
6,788	“Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.”	stoicism
6,787	“Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?”	stoicism
7,538	“There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and the number of problems we have.”	stoicism
7,359	“Seeing your loved one asleep is a great opportunity to practice seeing them dead.”	stoicism
7,140	“Freedom of speech does not come with opinions worth listening to.”	stoicism
6,944	“Externals are nothing to a stoic. The falsehoods and artificial limitations of human society are nothing to proponents of the theater principle”	stoicism
6,963	“Kindness has become so rare that it provokes perplexity about what's sincere and what's deceitful.”	stoicism
7,271	“There was no meaning in why he was here, but he was, and that was enough.”	stoicism
6,882	“Stand up straight, not straightened The Gods give us everything, but not all at once.”	stoicism
6,883	“Stand up straight, not straightened. The Gods give us everything, but not all at once.”	stoicism
6,991	“Do you consider yourself a nobody? What weight does that label even have? It’s a silly label. As silly as the label 'somebody'. Silly and non-adhesive. First off, to be thought of as a nobody someone has to be thinking of you in the first place. Second, being a so-called 'nobody' doesn’t make you irrelevant. We are all relevant to somebody else but unfortunately, we can lose sight of our most germane and important relationships when we chase the approval of people we don’t even know.”	stoicism
7,447	“The most effective way to understand the dissonance between our thoughts about reality and reality itself, is to consider how many times we've felt like our world is ending and how many times it actually has.”	stoicism
7,600	“Each of us is impermanent wave of energy folded into the infinite cosmic order. Acknowledgement of the fundamental impermanence of ourselves unchains us from the strictures of living a terrestrial life stuck like a needle vacillating between the magnetic pull of endless desire and the terror of death. Once we achieve freedom from any craving and all desires and we are relieved of all titanic fears, we release ourselves from living in perpetual distress. Once we rid ourselves from any impulse to exist, we discover our true place in the universal order. The composition of our life filament is exactly right when we accept the notion of living and dying with equal stoicism.”	stoicism
7,413	“Consider what intemperate lovers undergo for the sake of evil desires, and how much exertion others expend for the sake of making profit, and how much suffering those who are pursuing fame endure, and bear in mind that all of these people submit to all kinds of toil and hardship voluntarily. Is it then not monstrous that they for no honorable reward endure such things, while we for the sake of the ideal good - that is not only the avoidance of evil such as wrecks our lives, but also the acquisition of virtue, which we may call the provider of all goods -- are not ready to bear every hardship? And yet would not anyone admit how much better it is, in place of exerting oneself to win someone else's wife, to exert oneself the discipline of one's desires; in place of enduring hardships for the sake of money, the train oneself to want little; instead of giving oneself trouble about getting notoriety; instead of trying to find a way to injure an envied person, to enquire how not to envy anyone; and instead of slaving, as sycophants do, to win false friends, to undergo suffering in order to possess true friends? Since toil and hardship are a necessity for all, both for those who seek better and worse, it is preposterous that those pursuing the better are not much more eager in their efforts than those for whom there is small hope of reward for all their pains. ... It remains for me to say that who is unwilling to exert himself almost always convicts himself as unworthy of good, since all good is gained by toil.”	stoicism
7,666	“I smile to catch the piranhas from swimming out of my mouth.”	stoicism
7,033	“We always put ourselves first: the fulfilment of our desire sometimes comes last.”	stoicism
6,824	“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”	stoicism
7,640	“What fortune has made yours is not your own.”	stoicism
7,412	“Ambition: The willingness to continually question and assess one’s acceptance and contentment with their place in life; conjunct with the willingness to take action should a resolvable discrepancy between one’s values and one’s current standing, present itself. By extension, an ambitious person is someone who has to the best of their abilities thoughtfully defined their values and continues on to do whatever is reasonably possible to fully embrace who they are in life.”	stoicism
7,569	“Life takes from us only lives we were given by it.”	stoicism
7,547	“Life is yet to produce someone who is loved by or important to everyone.”	stoicism
7,227	“Not complaining is sometimes a show off of tolerance or patience.”	stoicism
7,647	“If you apply yourself to study you will avoid all boredom with life, you will not long for night because you are sick of daylight, you will be neither a burden to yourself nor useless to others, you will attract many to become your friends and the finest people will flock about you.”	stoicism
6,931	“The Iliad consists of nothing more than impressions and the use of impressions. An impression prompted Paris to carry off the wife of Menelaus, and an impression prompted Helen to go with him. If an impression, then, had prompted Menelaus to feel that it was a gain to be deprived of such a wife, what would have come about? Not only the Iliad would have been lost, but the Odyssey too!”	stoicism
7,149	“You cannot love what you have become, yet hate what you have overcome.”	stoicism
6,856	“I examine my entire day and go back over what I have done and said, hiding nothing from myself, passing nothing by. For why should I fear any consequence from my mistakes, when I am able to say, “See that you do not do it again—but now I forgive you.”	stoicism
6,824	“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”	stoicism
7,245	“Living is the outside of dying.”	stoicism
7,569	“Life takes from us only lives we were given by it.”	stoicism
6,947	“When we first wake up our minds are clear, which makes this the opportune time to direct our focus inwards, to organize our thoughts and to set our daily intentions through a few moments of meditation. Our duties and obligations have not yet begun to crowd our schedule, and the clarity of the dawn creates an open, undistracted mental space.”	stoicism
7,160	“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much… The life we receive is not short but we make it so”	stoicism
7,118	“Intelligent people question everything. Stupid people answer every question.”	stoicism
6,777	“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be.”	stoicism
7,602	“The supreme ideal does not call for any external aids. It is homegrown, wholly self-developed. Once it starts looking outside itself for any part of itself it is on the way to being dominated by fortune.”	stoicism
7,082	“The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.”	stoicism
7,528	“An action is at least a billion times less difficult to choose than a reaction.”	stoicism
7,604	“Show me a man who though sick is happy, who though in danger is happy, who though in prison is happy, and I'll show you a Stoic.”	stoicism
7,212	“Wishing is usually an indirect way of feeling sorry for yourself.”	stoicism
7,536	“We have never tried to do most of the things we are dead sure we cannot do.”	stoicism
7,097	“Just as roosters scream in the morning, being reborn is the polar opposite. You are blinded by bliss and numb to such pains.”	stoicism
6,823	“Here is your great soul—the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself.”	stoicism
7,530	“You cannot be blessed with the ability to be happy without being cursed with the ability to be unhappy.”	stoicism
7,008	“As for us, we face things that are not nearly as intimidating, and then we promptly decide we're screwed. This is how obstacles become obstacles. In other words, through our perception of events, we are complicit in the creation-as well as the destruction-of every one of our obstacles. There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means. - Book: "The Obstacle is the Way”	stoicism
6,998	“Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the Sun.”	stoicism
7,348	“Some of those whose existence you wish could end now do not even know about your existence.”	stoicism
6,820	“When a dog is tied to a cart, if it wants to follow, it is pulled and follows, making its spontaneous act coincide with necessity. But if the dog does not follow, it will be compelled in any case. So it is with men too: even if they don't want to, they will be compelled to follow what is destined.”	stoicism
7,378	“A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.”	stoicism
7,373	“The wise remind themselves that ‘This too shall pass’ even when things are good; the foolish, only when things are bad.”	stoicism
7,033	“We always put ourselves first: the fulfilment of our desire sometimes comes last.”	stoicism
7,187	“We all too often invite a lie by asking someone how he or she is doing.”	stoicism
7,572	“Our inability to imagine the length of the rest of existence magnifies our problems.”	stoicism
6,865	“With respect to Stoicism, Hadot has described four features that constitute the universal Stoic attitude. They are, first, the Stoic consciousness of "the fact that no being is alone, but that we make up part of a Whole, constituted by the totality of human beings as well as by the totality of the cosmos"; second, the Stoic "feels absolutely serene, free, and invulnerable to the extent that he has become aware that there is no other evil but moral evil and that the only thing that counts is the purity of moral consciousness"; third, the Stoic "believes in the absolute value of the human person," a belief that is "at the origin of the modern notion of the 'rights of man'"; finally, the Stoic exercises his concentration "on the present instant, which consists, on the one hand, in living as if we were seeing the world for the first and for the last time, and, on the other hand, in being conscious that, in this lived presence of the instant, we have access to the totality of time and of the world." 17 Thus, for Hadot, cosmic consciousness, the purity of moral consciousness, the recognition of the equality and absolute value of human beings, and the concentration on the present instant represent the universal Stoic attitude. The universal Epicurean attitude essentially consists, by way of "a certain discipline and reduction of desires, in returning from pleasures mixed with pain and suffering to the simple and pure pleasure of existing.”	stoicism
6,857	“Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasure-house of your soul, there are infinitely precious things that may not be taken from you.”	stoicism
6,847	“Forever seeking, forever moving forward. To strive, to struggle.”	stoicism
7,057	“Philosophy neither rejects anyone nor chooses anyone; it shines for all.”	stoicism
6,889	“...what will you do when you are dead? "My name will remain." Write it on a stone, and it will remain. But come, what remembrance of you will there be beyond Nicopolis? "But I shall wear a crown of gold." If you desire a crown at all, take a crown of roses and put it on, for it will be more elegant in appearance.”	stoicism
7,583	“Sometimes, even to live is an act of courage.”	stoicism
7,260	“Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where is all that now? Smoke, dust, legend…or not even a legend. Think of all the examples. And how trivial the things we want so passionately are. An emotional response is a human response, I get it. I too have succumbed to emotion, more often than I care to admit. But it is also a futile response. It isn’t an objectively beneficial response. This is central to Stoicism.”	stoicism
7,221	“Being grateful for the shade of a tree is not nearly as honourable as planting a tree.”	stoicism
7,269	“The media’s goal is to literally challenge your ability to be still. A tough American, intent on improving upon their current self, is not tricked into an emotional reaction by these headlines. You do not write an angry tweet, you do not hurl an insult. You are cool and measured, and skeptical. You are curious what the agenda of the journalist might be and what facts or context they might be leaving out. You seek out a different story on the same topic from an opposing view, and you find out that many of the claims made in the original story were convincingly debunked. And just like that, you are a Zen master of stillness and Stoicism.”	stoicism
6,934	“The afternoon presents an intersection where the momentum that we have gained in the morning may be either sustained or lost – where we can choose to either build on the morning’s foundations and embrace our challenges, or allow the stress and frustration of the day to ruin all our hard work.”	stoicism
6,951	“The only way to know what lies ahead is by continuing onward.”	stoicism
7,238	“A long life is a curse if you have a short temper.”	stoicism
7,504	“Finding peace of mind usually demands that we lose some things and some people.”	stoicism
7,592	“Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being.”	stoicism
6,776	“Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.”	stoicism
7,099	“Some sentences take seconds to read, but take minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or even years to understand.”	stoicism
7,544	“The present isn’t more capable of causing mental pain than the past or the future.”	stoicism
7,442	“Running is a form of practiced stoicism. It means teaching your brain and body to be biochemically comfortable in a state of disrepair.”	stoicism
6,920	“You can also commit injustice by doing nothing.”	stoicism
6,854	“There is the mind of a monarch within each of us, wanting to be granted complete freedom of action but not wanting it to be turned against us.”	stoicism
6,916	“I am not like the Gods! That was a painful thrust; I'm like the worm that burrows in the dust, Who, as he makes of dust his meager meal, Is crushed and buried by a wanderers heel Is it not dust that stares from every rack And narrows down this vaulting den? This moth's world full of bric-a-brac In which I live as in a pen? Here I should find for what I care? Should I read in a thousand books, maybe, That men have always suffered everywhere, Though now and then some man lived happily?- Why, hollow skull, do you grin like a faun? Save that your brain, like mine, once in dismay Searched for light day, but foundered in the heavy dawn”	stoicism
7,393	“We cannot have, but can lose, everything.”	stoicism
7,150	“Funerals greatly exaggerate the pleasantness of being alive, while they prevent us from thinking about the advantages of being dead.”	stoicism

6,917

“Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not.”

stoicism

7,399

“That you are about to bury or have just buried your loved one does not make you and your loved ones immortal for a while.”

stoicism

7,111

“Don't waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people- unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful.”

stoicism

7,245

“Living is the outside of dying.”

stoicism

6,832

“Maximum remedium est irae mora.”

stoicism

7,470

“I’ve let people’s opinions, my own self judgements and many negative things take this life away from me. No more!”

stoicism

7,129

“Life cannot, not even for a millisecond, remain exactly how it is.”

stoicism

7,330

“We have, not problems, but negative attitudes towards some situations (towards which some people have or would have positive attitudes).”

stoicism

7,096

“Just as chickens wake up and scream, being reborn is the polar opposite. You are blinded by bliss and numb to such pain.”

stoicism

7,538

“There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and the number of problems we have.”

stoicism

7,505

“[T]reat your inferiors in the way in which you would like to be treated by your own superiors.”

stoicism

6,910

“We should refrain from attempting to change things to fit our narrative of explaining the world, and start changing this narrative to better host the things we experience.”

stoicism

6,984

“If it should ever happen to you to be turned to externals in order to please some person, you must know that you have lost your purpose in life.”

stoicism

7,204

“The mind, unconquered by violent passions, is a citadel, for a man has no fortress more impregnable in which to find refuge and remain safe forever.”

stoicism

7,660

“Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.”

stoicism

7,492

“Disgraceful if, in this life where your body does not fail, your soul should fail you first.”

stoicism

7,087

“Unlearning makes learning at least three times longer than necessary.”

stoicism

6,801

“Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions — not outside.”

stoicism

7,439

“The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can’t lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don’t have?”

stoicism

7,054

“Well begun is half done. This is something that depends on the mind; so when one is willing to become good, goodness is in large part achieved.”

stoicism

7,074

“Most adults make adulthood seem like a disease that is caused by a deficiency of playfulness.”

stoicism

7,198

“What does it mean to be getting an education? It means learning to apply natural preconceptions to particular cases as nature prescribes, and distinguishing what is in our power from what is not.”

stoicism

7,246

“You have not yet reaped the sweetest fruits of meditation, if you still do not meditate only to meditate.”

stoicism

7,055

“Prosperity is a restless thing; it drives itself to distraction. It addles the brain, and not always in the same way, for it goads people in different directions—some toward power, others toward self-indulgence. Some are puffed up by it, others unmanned and made entirely feeble.”

stoicism

6,913

“The world is asking us the questions, and it couldn’t care less what we expect from it. But here’s the good news: real meaning doesn’t come from what the world gives you, but how you respond to it.”

stoicism

7,193

“Our caring about what others think about us is one of the pillars of the economy.”

stoicism

6,788

“Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.”

stoicism

6,787

“Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?”

stoicism

7,538

“There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and the number of problems we have.”

stoicism

7,359

“Seeing your loved one asleep is a great opportunity to practice seeing them dead.”

stoicism

7,140

“Freedom of speech does not come with opinions worth listening to.”

stoicism

6,944

“Externals are nothing to a stoic. The falsehoods and artificial limitations of human society are nothing to proponents of the theater principle”

stoicism

6,963

“Kindness has become so rare that it provokes perplexity about what's sincere and what's deceitful.”

stoicism

7,271

“There was no meaning in why he was here, but he was, and that was enough.”

stoicism

6,882

“Stand up straight, not straightened The Gods give us everything, but not all at once.”

stoicism

6,883

“Stand up straight, not straightened. The Gods give us everything, but not all at once.”

stoicism

6,991

“Do you consider yourself a nobody? What weight does that label even have? It’s a silly label. As silly as the label 'somebody'. Silly and non-adhesive. First off, to be thought of as a nobody someone has to be thinking of you in the first place. Second, being a so-called 'nobody' doesn’t make you irrelevant. We are all relevant to somebody else but unfortunately, we can lose sight of our most germane and important relationships when we chase the approval of people we don’t even know.”

stoicism

7,447

“The most effective way to understand the dissonance between our thoughts about reality and reality itself, is to consider how many times we've felt like our world is ending and how many times it actually has.”

stoicism

7,600

“Each of us is impermanent wave of energy folded into the infinite cosmic order. Acknowledgement of the fundamental impermanence of ourselves unchains us from the strictures of living a terrestrial life stuck like a needle vacillating between the magnetic pull of endless desire and the terror of death. Once we achieve freedom from any craving and all desires and we are relieved of all titanic fears, we release ourselves from living in perpetual distress. Once we rid ourselves from any impulse to exist, we discover our true place in the universal order. The composition of our life filament is exactly right when we accept the notion of living and dying with equal stoicism.”

stoicism

7,413

“Consider what intemperate lovers undergo for the sake of evil desires, and how much exertion others expend for the sake of making profit, and how much suffering those who are pursuing fame endure, and bear in mind that all of these people submit to all kinds of toil and hardship voluntarily. Is it then not monstrous that they for no honorable reward endure such things, while we for the sake of the ideal good - that is not only the avoidance of evil such as wrecks our lives, but also the acquisition of virtue, which we may call the provider of all goods -- are not ready to bear every hardship? And yet would not anyone admit how much better it is, in place of exerting oneself to win someone else's wife, to exert oneself the discipline of one's desires; in place of enduring hardships for the sake of money, the train oneself to want little; instead of giving oneself trouble about getting notoriety; instead of trying to find a way to injure an envied person, to enquire how not to envy anyone; and instead of slaving, as sycophants do, to win false friends, to undergo suffering in order to possess true friends? Since toil and hardship are a necessity for all, both for those who seek better and worse, it is preposterous that those pursuing the better are not much more eager in their efforts than those for whom there is small hope of reward for all their pains. ... It remains for me to say that who is unwilling to exert himself almost always convicts himself as unworthy of good, since all good is gained by toil.”

stoicism

7,666

“I smile to catch the piranhas from swimming out of my mouth.”

stoicism

7,033

“We always put ourselves first: the fulfilment of our desire sometimes comes last.”

stoicism

6,824

“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”

stoicism

7,640

“What fortune has made yours is not your own.”

stoicism

7,412

“Ambition: The willingness to continually question and assess one’s acceptance and contentment with their place in life; conjunct with the willingness to take action should a resolvable discrepancy between one’s values and one’s current standing, present itself. By extension, an ambitious person is someone who has to the best of their abilities thoughtfully defined their values and continues on to do whatever is reasonably possible to fully embrace who they are in life.”

stoicism

7,569

“Life takes from us only lives we were given by it.”

stoicism

7,547

“Life is yet to produce someone who is loved by or important to everyone.”

stoicism

7,227

“Not complaining is sometimes a show off of tolerance or patience.”

stoicism

7,647

“If you apply yourself to study you will avoid all boredom with life, you will not long for night because you are sick of daylight, you will be neither a burden to yourself nor useless to others, you will attract many to become your friends and the finest people will flock about you.”

stoicism

6,931

“The Iliad consists of nothing more than impressions and the use of impressions. An impression prompted Paris to carry off the wife of Menelaus, and an impression prompted Helen to go with him. If an impression, then, had prompted Menelaus to feel that it was a gain to be deprived of such a wife, what would have come about? Not only the Iliad would have been lost, but the Odyssey too!”

stoicism

7,149

“You cannot love what you have become, yet hate what you have overcome.”

stoicism

6,856

“I examine my entire day and go back over what I have done and said, hiding nothing from myself, passing nothing by. For why should I fear any consequence from my mistakes, when I am able to say, “See that you do not do it again—but now I forgive you.”

stoicism

6,824

“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”

stoicism

7,245

“Living is the outside of dying.”

stoicism

7,569

“Life takes from us only lives we were given by it.”

stoicism

6,947

“When we first wake up our minds are clear, which makes this the opportune time to direct our focus inwards, to organize our thoughts and to set our daily intentions through a few moments of meditation. Our duties and obligations have not yet begun to crowd our schedule, and the clarity of the dawn creates an open, undistracted mental space.”

stoicism

7,160

“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much… The life we receive is not short but we make it so”

stoicism

7,118

“Intelligent people question everything. Stupid people answer every question.”

stoicism

6,777

“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be.”

stoicism

7,602

“The supreme ideal does not call for any external aids. It is homegrown, wholly self-developed. Once it starts looking outside itself for any part of itself it is on the way to being dominated by fortune.”

stoicism

7,082

“The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.”

stoicism

7,528

“An action is at least a billion times less difficult to choose than a reaction.”

stoicism

7,604

“Show me a man who though sick is happy, who though in danger is happy, who though in prison is happy, and I'll show you a Stoic.”

stoicism

7,212

“Wishing is usually an indirect way of feeling sorry for yourself.”

stoicism

7,536

“We have never tried to do most of the things we are dead sure we cannot do.”

stoicism

7,097

“Just as roosters scream in the morning, being reborn is the polar opposite. You are blinded by bliss and numb to such pains.”

stoicism

6,823

“Here is your great soul—the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself.”

stoicism

7,530

“You cannot be blessed with the ability to be happy without being cursed with the ability to be unhappy.”

stoicism

7,008

“As for us, we face things that are not nearly as intimidating, and then we promptly decide we're screwed. This is how obstacles become obstacles. In other words, through our perception of events, we are complicit in the creation-as well as the destruction-of every one of our obstacles. There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means. - Book: "The Obstacle is the Way”

stoicism

6,998

“Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the Sun.”

stoicism

7,348

“Some of those whose existence you wish could end now do not even know about your existence.”

stoicism

6,820

“When a dog is tied to a cart, if it wants to follow, it is pulled and follows, making its spontaneous act coincide with necessity. But if the dog does not follow, it will be compelled in any case. So it is with men too: even if they don't want to, they will be compelled to follow what is destined.”

stoicism

7,378

“A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.”

stoicism

7,373

“The wise remind themselves that ‘This too shall pass’ even when things are good; the foolish, only when things are bad.”

stoicism

7,033

“We always put ourselves first: the fulfilment of our desire sometimes comes last.”

stoicism

7,187

“We all too often invite a lie by asking someone how he or she is doing.”

stoicism

7,572

“Our inability to imagine the length of the rest of existence magnifies our problems.”

stoicism

6,865

“With respect to Stoicism, Hadot has described four features that constitute the universal Stoic attitude. They are, first, the Stoic consciousness of "the fact that no being is alone, but that we make up part of a Whole, constituted by the totality of human beings as well as by the totality of the cosmos"; second, the Stoic "feels absolutely serene, free, and invulnerable to the extent that he has become aware that there is no other evil but moral evil and that the only thing that counts is the purity of moral consciousness"; third, the Stoic "believes in the absolute value of the human person," a belief that is "at the origin of the modern notion of the 'rights of man'"; finally, the Stoic exercises his concentration "on the present instant, which consists, on the one hand, in living as if we were seeing the world for the first and for the last time, and, on the other hand, in being conscious that, in this lived presence of the instant, we have access to the totality of time and of the world." 17 Thus, for Hadot, cosmic consciousness, the purity of moral consciousness, the recognition of the equality and absolute value of human beings, and the concentration on the present instant represent the universal Stoic attitude. The universal Epicurean attitude essentially consists, by way of "a certain discipline and reduction of desires, in returning from pleasures mixed with pain and suffering to the simple and pure pleasure of existing.”

stoicism

6,857

“Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasure-house of your soul, there are infinitely precious things that may not be taken from you.”

stoicism

6,847

“Forever seeking, forever moving forward. To strive, to struggle.”

stoicism

7,057

“Philosophy neither rejects anyone nor chooses anyone; it shines for all.”

stoicism

6,889

“...what will you do when you are dead? "My name will remain." Write it on a stone, and it will remain. But come, what remembrance of you will there be beyond Nicopolis? "But I shall wear a crown of gold." If you desire a crown at all, take a crown of roses and put it on, for it will be more elegant in appearance.”

stoicism

7,583

“Sometimes, even to live is an act of courage.”

stoicism

7,260

“Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where is all that now? Smoke, dust, legend…or not even a legend. Think of all the examples. And how trivial the things we want so passionately are. An emotional response is a human response, I get it. I too have succumbed to emotion, more often than I care to admit. But it is also a futile response. It isn’t an objectively beneficial response. This is central to Stoicism.”

stoicism

7,221

“Being grateful for the shade of a tree is not nearly as honourable as planting a tree.”

stoicism

7,269

“The media’s goal is to literally challenge your ability to be still. A tough American, intent on improving upon their current self, is not tricked into an emotional reaction by these headlines. You do not write an angry tweet, you do not hurl an insult. You are cool and measured, and skeptical. You are curious what the agenda of the journalist might be and what facts or context they might be leaving out. You seek out a different story on the same topic from an opposing view, and you find out that many of the claims made in the original story were convincingly debunked. And just like that, you are a Zen master of stillness and Stoicism.”

stoicism

6,934

“The afternoon presents an intersection where the momentum that we have gained in the morning may be either sustained or lost – where we can choose to either build on the morning’s foundations and embrace our challenges, or allow the stress and frustration of the day to ruin all our hard work.”

stoicism

6,951

“The only way to know what lies ahead is by continuing onward.”

stoicism

7,238

“A long life is a curse if you have a short temper.”

stoicism

7,504

“Finding peace of mind usually demands that we lose some things and some people.”

stoicism

7,592

“Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being.”

stoicism

6,776

“Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.”

stoicism

7,099

“Some sentences take seconds to read, but take minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or even years to understand.”

stoicism

7,544

“The present isn’t more capable of causing mental pain than the past or the future.”

stoicism

7,442

“Running is a form of practiced stoicism. It means teaching your brain and body to be biochemically comfortable in a state of disrepair.”

stoicism

6,920

“You can also commit injustice by doing nothing.”

stoicism

6,854

“There is the mind of a monarch within each of us, wanting to be granted complete freedom of action but not wanting it to be turned against us.”

stoicism

6,916

“I am not like the Gods! That was a painful thrust; I'm like the worm that burrows in the dust, Who, as he makes of dust his meager meal, Is crushed and buried by a wanderers heel Is it not dust that stares from every rack And narrows down this vaulting den? This moth's world full of bric-a-brac In which I live as in a pen? Here I should find for what I care? Should I read in a thousand books, maybe, That men have always suffered everywhere, Though now and then some man lived happily?- Why, hollow skull, do you grin like a faun? Save that your brain, like mine, once in dismay Searched for light day, but foundered in the heavy dawn”

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7,393

“We cannot have, but can lose, everything.”

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7,150

“Funerals greatly exaggerate the pleasantness of being alive, while they prevent us from thinking about the advantages of being dead.”

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