Quotes Tagged With :stoicism

When you give your items away, don’t keep the excess of your pride.

Progress daily in your own uncertainty. Live in awareness of the questions.

Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable....

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

Submission, when it is submission to the truth — and when the truth is known to be both beautiful and....

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate....

A properly educated leader, especially when harassed and under pressure, will know from his study of....

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

For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless....

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.