Quotes Tagged With :stoicism

When you run up against someone else’s shamelessness, ask yourself this: Is a world without shamelessness....

If all emotions are common coin, then what is unique to the good man?To welcome with affection what is....

Each of us is impermanent wave of energy folded into the infinite cosmic order. Acknowledgement of the....

[I]ndulge the body just so far as suffices for good health. It needs to be treated somewhat strictly....

Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a....

You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For....

Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and....

Bondage is when the mind longs for something, grieves about something, rejects something, holds on to....

And here lies the essential difference between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the....

What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.