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6,795	“Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one's irritation so long as one doesn't make it bigger than it is by getting irritated.”	stoicism
7,573	“Judgments are the only possible cause of unhappiness and happiness.”	stoicism
7,026	“At any moment we may be toppled from our perch and made to do with less—less money, less recognition, less access, less resources. Even the “less-es” that come with age: less mobility, less energy, less freedom. But we can prepare for that, in some way, by familiarizing ourselves with what that might feel like.”	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
7,394	“We sometimes learn, not from something, but from not having learned from it.”	stoicism
7,636	“All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.”	stoicism
7,022	“Most people would rather have their remarks be misunderstood than be disagreed with.”	stoicism
7,461	“It is human to be angry, but childish to be controlled by anger.”	stoicism
7,488	“I value my time so much that undressing is the only thing I am willing to do for sex.”	stoicism
7,072	“Don’t seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will — then your life will flow well.”	stoicism
7,408	“The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.”	stoicism
6,825	“Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.”	stoicism
7,495	“Where you arrive does not matter as much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there.”	stoicism
7,295	“When you are alone, you should call this tranquility and freedom and when you are with many you shouldn’t call this a crowd, or trouble or uneasiness but festival and company and contentedly accept it.”	stoicism
7,243	“Because of things such as arrogance, alcohol, and promiscuity, some people are each a legend in the unmaking.”	stoicism
6,797	“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.”	stoicism
6,847	“Forever seeking, forever moving forward. To strive, to struggle.”	stoicism
6,985	“Every life without exception is a short one.”	stoicism
7,155	“We each unwittingly contribute, each and every day, to the preventions and to the causes of millions of accidents.”	stoicism
7,134	“Gluttony is nothing other than lack of self-control with respect to food, and human beings prefer food that is pleasant to food that is nutritious.”	stoicism
7,435	“Detente particularmente en cada una de las acciones que haces y pregúntate si la muerte es terrible porque te priva de eso.”	stoicism
7,295	“When you are alone, you should call this tranquility and freedom and when you are with many you shouldn’t call this a crowd, or trouble or uneasiness but festival and company and contentedly accept it.”	stoicism
7,468	“Optimism is an effort.”	stoicism
7,081	“It isn't manly to be enraged. Rather gentleness and civility are more human, therefrom more manly.”	stoicism
7,652	“Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.”	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
6,772	“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”	stoicism
7,392	“Life is 99 percent attitude. Yet for the majority of people, it is the remaining one percent that dominates 99 percent of their life.”	stoicism
7,519	“Like happiness, unhappiness usually springs from a comparison.”	stoicism
7,132	“We do not need to lose people or things to appreciate them.”	stoicism
7,520	“Killing a person does not lead to nearly as much pain as creating a human being.”	stoicism
7,277	“A still person has the ability to stop, look at a news story or another person’s arguments, and ask objective questions without emotional overreaction or assumptions of ill intent. One is centered, rational, and respected; the other is frantic, unhappy, and intellectually stagnant. Don’t be the latter.”	stoicism
7,043	“The good and the bad occur at all times and will keep happening. We can become lost if we go with the hype of ‘good and bad’ every time.”	stoicism
7,275	“Education teaches us how to make a living, not how to live.”	stoicism
7,575	“The worst that can happen to anyone will happen to everyone.”	stoicism
7,508	“There is a correlation between how hard life seems to us and how easy we expected it to be.”	stoicism
7,652	“Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.”	stoicism
6,784	“How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.”	stoicism
6,961	“Add nothing of your own from within, and that's an end of it.”	stoicism
7,400	“What good does it do you to go overseas, to move from city to city? If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”	stoicism
7,254	“Remind yourself that what you love is mortal … at the very moment you are taking joy in something, present yourself with the opposite impressions. What harm is it, just when you are kissing your little child, to say: Tomorrow you will die, or to your friend similarly: Tomorrow one of us will go away, and we shall not see one another any more?”	stoicism
6,797	“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.”	stoicism
7,483	“That you have just caught success after chasing it for many years does not mean that death will stop chasing you for at least a few seconds.”	stoicism
6,808	“Remember to act always as if you were at a symposium. When the food or drink comes around, reach out and take some politely; if it passes you by don't try pulling it back. And if it has not reached you yet, don't let your desire run ahead of you, be patient until your turn comes. Adopt a similar attitude with regard to children, wife, wealth and status, and in time, you will be entitled to dine with the gods. Go further and decline these goods even when they are on offer and you will have a share in the gods' power as well as their company. That is how Diogenes, Heraclitus and philosophers like them came to be called, and considered, divine.”	stoicism
7,042	“Most people usually talk faster than they think.”	stoicism
7,000	“Will you never come to a realisation of who you are, what you have been born for and the purpose for which the gift of vision was made in our case?”	stoicism
6,855	“I will keep a watch on myself straightway and—the most useful step—review my day. The fact that we do not look back over our lives makes us worse. We ponder—though rarely—what we are to do, but we do not ponder at all what we have done—and yet planning for the future depends on the past.”	stoicism
7,243	“Because of things such as arrogance, alcohol, and promiscuity, some people are each a legend in the unmaking.”	stoicism
6,895	“Just as the sun is forever pursued by shadows, so too is our purpose chased by an unending flurry of distractions. They are the specters of our existence, conjured by the ceaseless clatter of the world, whispering tales of urgency and importance that often bear no relevance to our true path.”	stoicism
7,581	“You will never see me surrender, never see me cry, but you will often see me walk away. Turn around and just leave, without looking back.”	stoicism
7,306	“Poverty is greatly exaggerated by sanity.”	stoicism
6,914	“Birds weren’t given wings just to walk everywhere . . . and you weren’t born with resilience and a beautiful mind just to have an easy life.”	stoicism
7,294	“When you are unhappy, happy people are disgusting.”	stoicism
6,981	“[...] Say good-bye at last to those deceptive prizes more precious to those who hope for them than to those who have won them.”	stoicism
6,794	“You should … live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.”	stoicism
7,349	“The curse of mortality is the other side of the coin of the blessing of life.”	stoicism
7,163	“Show by a cheerful look that you don't need the help or comfort of others. Standing up - not propped up.”	stoicism
6,836	“Submission, when it is submission to the truth — and when the truth is known to be both beautiful and merciful — has nothing in common with fatalism or stoicism as these terms are understood in the Western tradition, because its motivation is different. According to Fakhr ad-Din ar-RazT, one of the great commentators upon the Quran: The worship of the eyes is weeping, the worship of the ears is listening, the worship of the tongue is praise, the worship of the hands is giving, the worship of the body is effort, the worship of the heart is fear and hope, and the worship of the spirit is surrender and satisfaction in Allah.”	stoicism
7,002	“Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.”	stoicism
6,878	“An open eye in the dark, will find light...”	stoicism
6,915	“Life is short but life is long”	stoicism
6,880	“Not just that every day more of our life is used up and less and less of it is left, but this too: if we live longer, can we be sure our mind will still be up to understanding the world—to the contemplation that aims at divine and human knowledge? If our mind starts to wander, we'll still go on breathing, go on eating, imagining things, feeling urges and so on. But getting the most of ourselves, calculating where our duty lies, analyzing what we hear and see, deciding whether it's time to call it quits—all the things you need a healthy mind for... all those are gone.”	stoicism
6,997	“If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher, nor suffer others to call you so. Say rather: He is in error; for my desires, my impulses are unaltered. I give in my adhesion to what I did before; nor has my mode of dealing with the things of sense undergone any change.”	stoicism
6,880	“Not just that every day more of our life is used up and less and less of it is left, but this too: if we live longer, can we be sure our mind will still be up to understanding the world—to the contemplation that aims at divine and human knowledge? If our mind starts to wander, we'll still go on breathing, go on eating, imagining things, feeling urges and so on. But getting the most of ourselves, calculating where our duty lies, analyzing what we hear and see, deciding whether it's time to call it quits—all the things you need a healthy mind for... all those are gone.”	stoicism
7,239	“Slavery often masquerades as freedom.”	stoicism
6,803	“Remember two things: i. that everything has always been the same, and keeps recurring, and it makes no difference whether you see the same things recur in a hundred years or two hundred, or in an infinite period; ii. that the longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have you cannot lose.”	stoicism
7,392	“Life is 99 percent attitude. Yet for the majority of people, it is the remaining one percent that dominates 99 percent of their life.”	stoicism
7,545	“It is impossible to trip and fall while walking slowly.”	stoicism
7,138	“Learning how to live would take most people at least three lifetimes.”	stoicism
7,517	“The modern expectation is that there will be equality in all things in the couple—which means, at heart, an equality of suffering. But calibrating grief to ensure an equal dosage is no easy task: misery is experienced subjectively, and there is always a temptation for each party to form a sincere yet competitive conviction that, in truth, his or her life really is more cursed--in ways that the partner seems uninclined to acknowledge or atone for. It takes a superhuman wisdom to avoid the consoling conclusion that one has the harder life.”	stoicism
7,364	“The same situation can either be perceived as a lead ball chained to your feet, or as wings growing out of your shoulder blades. How you interpret the challenge is crucial to your success of overcoming it. Ultimately, it's never the challenges that matter, but how you perceive them.”	stoicism
7,323	“Change is not always a bad thing: it sometimes takes the form of progress. And is not always a good thing: it sometimes takes the form of regress.”	stoicism
7,194	“Take it to mind, not to heart.”	stoicism
7,382	“Но в этом-то и состоит сила стоицизма: признание фундаментальной истины, что мы можем контролировать только свое поведение, но не его результаты (не говоря уже о результатах поведения других людей), дает нам способность невозмутимо принимать происходящее. Это происходит, потому что мы знаем: сделано все возможное и все зависящее от нас в данных обстоятельствах.”	stoicism
7,287	“Unless you learn your lesson, it will keep hurting. Not only it will never stop, it will also keep increasing the amount, so you won’t get used to it.”	stoicism
7,461	“It is human to be angry, but childish to be controlled by anger.”	stoicism
7,051	“Most people frequently waste their life, mostly in front of a screen.”	stoicism
7,089	“Conformity eats away individuality.”	stoicism
7,507	“Pitying a living man for being poor is like envying a dead man for being rich.”	stoicism
7,212	“Wishing is usually an indirect way of feeling sorry for yourself.”	stoicism
7,084	“Whatever you're going through, there is wisdom from the stoics that can help. In fact, in many cases, they have addressed it explicitly in terms that feel shockingly modern.”	stoicism
7,646	“Sometimes in life we must fight not only without fear, but also without hope.”	stoicism
7,510	“Each man has a character of his own choosing; it is chance or fate that decides his choice of job.”	stoicism
7,146	“Some solutions are seeds of some problems.”	stoicism
7,058	“Even if you had a lot of life left to live, you would need to parcel out your time sparingly so as to have enough for necessities. As it is, with time in such short supply, what madness it is to learn things that are superfluous.”	stoicism
7,206	“We often mistake assuming or hoping for knowing.”	stoicism
7,431	“For a delight in bustling about is not industry - it is only the restless energy of a hunted mind. And the state of mind that looks on all activity as tiresome is not true repose, but a spineless inertia.”	stoicism
7,046	“Things we wouldn't be willing to pay for if it meant giving up our house for them, or some pleasant or productive estate, we are quite ready to obtain at the cost of anxiety, of danger, of losing our freedom, our decency, our time.”	stoicism
7,479	“Most people will leave you with the impression that the main function of our emotions is to cloud our judgement.”	stoicism
7,351	“Some people who have been sentenced for life for crimes they did not commit are usually blissful, whereas many people who can go to any part of planet earth are usually miserable.”	stoicism
7,272	“I have, I hold whatever of mine I have ever had. There is no reason for you to suppose me conquered and yourself my conqueror. It is your fortune which has overcome mine. As for those fleeting possessions which change their owners, I know not where they are; what belongs to myself is with me, and ever will be.”	stoicism
7,393	“We cannot have, but can lose, everything.”	stoicism
7,285	“A truth whispered is not less truthful. And an untruth shouted is not less untruthful.”	stoicism
7,119	“Most people want more than they have without having made the most of what they have.”	stoicism
7,612	“But is life really worth so much? Let us examine this; it's a different inquiry. We will offer no solace for so desolate a prison house; we will encourage no one to endure the overlordship of butchers. We shall rather show that in every kind of slavery, the road of freedom lies open. I will say to the man to whom it befell to have a king shoot arrows at his dear ones [Prexaspes], and to him whose master makes fathers banquet on their sons' guts [Harpagus]: 'What are you groaning for, fool?... Everywhere you look you find an end to your sufferings. You see that steep drop-off? It leads down to freedom. You see that ocean, that river, that well? Freedom lies at its bottom. You see that short, shriveled, bare tree? Freedom hangs from it.... You ask, what is the path to freedom? Any vein in your body.”	stoicism
7,215	“There is a switch in the air tonight. It’s not suffocating, like breakups all those years ago, but clean and clear. He does not want me anymore so I tilt my head, take a breath and say, “Okay. I understand.” It’s calm now. My heart didn’t break, it kept on beating like a stoic marching forward without looking back, and I will be a writer now. I love so many people, still. I think I will write about them forever.”	stoicism
7,599	“Life is how you look at it.”	stoicism
7,119	“Most people want more than they have without having made the most of what they have.”	stoicism
7,376	“Happiness is an inevitable result of embracing, and unhappiness that of rejecting, what is.”	stoicism
7,433	“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law. And if any instance of pain or pleasure, glory or disgrace, be set before you, remember that now is the combat, now the Olympiad comes on, nor can it be put off; and that by one failure and defeat honor may be lost or—won.”	stoicism

6,795

“Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one's irritation so long as one doesn't make it bigger than it is by getting irritated.”

stoicism

7,573

“Judgments are the only possible cause of unhappiness and happiness.”

stoicism

7,026

“At any moment we may be toppled from our perch and made to do with less—less money, less recognition, less access, less resources. Even the “less-es” that come with age: less mobility, less energy, less freedom. But we can prepare for that, in some way, by familiarizing ourselves with what that might feel like.”

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

7,394

“We sometimes learn, not from something, but from not having learned from it.”

stoicism

7,636

“All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.”

stoicism

7,022

“Most people would rather have their remarks be misunderstood than be disagreed with.”

stoicism

7,461

“It is human to be angry, but childish to be controlled by anger.”

stoicism

7,488

“I value my time so much that undressing is the only thing I am willing to do for sex.”

stoicism

7,072

“Don’t seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will — then your life will flow well.”

stoicism

7,408

“The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.”

stoicism

6,825

“Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.”

stoicism

7,495

“Where you arrive does not matter as much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there.”

stoicism

7,295

“When you are alone, you should call this tranquility and freedom and when you are with many you shouldn’t call this a crowd, or trouble or uneasiness but festival and company and contentedly accept it.”

stoicism

7,243

“Because of things such as arrogance, alcohol, and promiscuity, some people are each a legend in the unmaking.”

stoicism

6,797

“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.”

stoicism

6,847

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

stoicism

6,985

“Every life without exception is a short one.”

stoicism

7,155

“We each unwittingly contribute, each and every day, to the preventions and to the causes of millions of accidents.”

stoicism

7,134

“Gluttony is nothing other than lack of self-control with respect to food, and human beings prefer food that is pleasant to food that is nutritious.”

stoicism

7,435

“Detente particularmente en cada una de las acciones que haces y pregúntate si la muerte es terrible porque te priva de eso.”

stoicism

7,295

“When you are alone, you should call this tranquility and freedom and when you are with many you shouldn’t call this a crowd, or trouble or uneasiness but festival and company and contentedly accept it.”

stoicism

7,468

“Optimism is an effort.”

stoicism

7,081

“It isn't manly to be enraged. Rather gentleness and civility are more human, therefrom more manly.”

stoicism

7,652

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

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

6,772

“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”

stoicism

7,392

“Life is 99 percent attitude. Yet for the majority of people, it is the remaining one percent that dominates 99 percent of their life.”

stoicism

7,519

“Like happiness, unhappiness usually springs from a comparison.”

stoicism

7,132

“We do not need to lose people or things to appreciate them.”

stoicism

7,520

“Killing a person does not lead to nearly as much pain as creating a human being.”

stoicism

7,277

“A still person has the ability to stop, look at a news story or another person’s arguments, and ask objective questions without emotional overreaction or assumptions of ill intent. One is centered, rational, and respected; the other is frantic, unhappy, and intellectually stagnant. Don’t be the latter.”

stoicism

7,043

“The good and the bad occur at all times and will keep happening. We can become lost if we go with the hype of ‘good and bad’ every time.”

stoicism

7,275

“Education teaches us how to make a living, not how to live.”

stoicism

7,575

“The worst that can happen to anyone will happen to everyone.”

stoicism

7,508

“There is a correlation between how hard life seems to us and how easy we expected it to be.”

stoicism

7,652

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

stoicism

6,784

“How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.”

stoicism

6,961

“Add nothing of your own from within, and that's an end of it.”

stoicism

7,400

“What good does it do you to go overseas, to move from city to city? If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”

stoicism

7,254

“Remind yourself that what you love is mortal … at the very moment you are taking joy in something, present yourself with the opposite impressions. What harm is it, just when you are kissing your little child, to say: Tomorrow you will die, or to your friend similarly: Tomorrow one of us will go away, and we shall not see one another any more?”

stoicism

6,797

“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.”

stoicism

7,483

“That you have just caught success after chasing it for many years does not mean that death will stop chasing you for at least a few seconds.”

stoicism

6,808

“Remember to act always as if you were at a symposium. When the food or drink comes around, reach out and take some politely; if it passes you by don't try pulling it back. And if it has not reached you yet, don't let your desire run ahead of you, be patient until your turn comes. Adopt a similar attitude with regard to children, wife, wealth and status, and in time, you will be entitled to dine with the gods. Go further and decline these goods even when they are on offer and you will have a share in the gods' power as well as their company. That is how Diogenes, Heraclitus and philosophers like them came to be called, and considered, divine.”

stoicism

7,042

“Most people usually talk faster than they think.”

stoicism

7,000

“Will you never come to a realisation of who you are, what you have been born for and the purpose for which the gift of vision was made in our case?”

stoicism

6,855

“I will keep a watch on myself straightway and—the most useful step—review my day. The fact that we do not look back over our lives makes us worse. We ponder—though rarely—what we are to do, but we do not ponder at all what we have done—and yet planning for the future depends on the past.”

stoicism

7,243

“Because of things such as arrogance, alcohol, and promiscuity, some people are each a legend in the unmaking.”

stoicism

6,895

“Just as the sun is forever pursued by shadows, so too is our purpose chased by an unending flurry of distractions. They are the specters of our existence, conjured by the ceaseless clatter of the world, whispering tales of urgency and importance that often bear no relevance to our true path.”

stoicism

7,581

“You will never see me surrender, never see me cry, but you will often see me walk away. Turn around and just leave, without looking back.”

stoicism

7,306

“Poverty is greatly exaggerated by sanity.”

stoicism

6,914

“Birds weren’t given wings just to walk everywhere . . . and you weren’t born with resilience and a beautiful mind just to have an easy life.”

stoicism

7,294

“When you are unhappy, happy people are disgusting.”

stoicism

6,981

“[...] Say good-bye at last to those deceptive prizes more precious to those who hope for them than to those who have won them.”

stoicism

6,794

“You should … live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.”

stoicism

7,349

“The curse of mortality is the other side of the coin of the blessing of life.”

stoicism

7,163

“Show by a cheerful look that you don't need the help or comfort of others. Standing up - not propped up.”

stoicism

6,836

“Submission, when it is submission to the truth — and when the truth is known to be both beautiful and merciful — has nothing in common with fatalism or stoicism as these terms are understood in the Western tradition, because its motivation is different. According to Fakhr ad-Din ar-RazT, one of the great commentators upon the Quran: The worship of the eyes is weeping, the worship of the ears is listening, the worship of the tongue is praise, the worship of the hands is giving, the worship of the body is effort, the worship of the heart is fear and hope, and the worship of the spirit is surrender and satisfaction in Allah.”

stoicism

7,002

“Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.”

stoicism

6,878

“An open eye in the dark, will find light...”

stoicism

6,915

“Life is short but life is long”

stoicism

6,880

“Not just that every day more of our life is used up and less and less of it is left, but this too: if we live longer, can we be sure our mind will still be up to understanding the world—to the contemplation that aims at divine and human knowledge? If our mind starts to wander, we'll still go on breathing, go on eating, imagining things, feeling urges and so on. But getting the most of ourselves, calculating where our duty lies, analyzing what we hear and see, deciding whether it's time to call it quits—all the things you need a healthy mind for... all those are gone.”

stoicism

6,997

“If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher, nor suffer others to call you so. Say rather: He is in error; for my desires, my impulses are unaltered. I give in my adhesion to what I did before; nor has my mode of dealing with the things of sense undergone any change.”

stoicism

6,880

“Not just that every day more of our life is used up and less and less of it is left, but this too: if we live longer, can we be sure our mind will still be up to understanding the world—to the contemplation that aims at divine and human knowledge? If our mind starts to wander, we'll still go on breathing, go on eating, imagining things, feeling urges and so on. But getting the most of ourselves, calculating where our duty lies, analyzing what we hear and see, deciding whether it's time to call it quits—all the things you need a healthy mind for... all those are gone.”

stoicism

7,239

“Slavery often masquerades as freedom.”

stoicism

6,803

“Remember two things: i. that everything has always been the same, and keeps recurring, and it makes no difference whether you see the same things recur in a hundred years or two hundred, or in an infinite period; ii. that the longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have you cannot lose.”

stoicism

7,392

“Life is 99 percent attitude. Yet for the majority of people, it is the remaining one percent that dominates 99 percent of their life.”

stoicism

7,545

“It is impossible to trip and fall while walking slowly.”

stoicism

7,138

“Learning how to live would take most people at least three lifetimes.”

stoicism

7,517

“The modern expectation is that there will be equality in all things in the couple—which means, at heart, an equality of suffering. But calibrating grief to ensure an equal dosage is no easy task: misery is experienced subjectively, and there is always a temptation for each party to form a sincere yet competitive conviction that, in truth, his or her life really is more cursed--in ways that the partner seems uninclined to acknowledge or atone for. It takes a superhuman wisdom to avoid the consoling conclusion that one has the harder life.”

stoicism

7,364

“The same situation can either be perceived as a lead ball chained to your feet, or as wings growing out of your shoulder blades. How you interpret the challenge is crucial to your success of overcoming it. Ultimately, it's never the challenges that matter, but how you perceive them.”

stoicism

7,323

“Change is not always a bad thing: it sometimes takes the form of progress. And is not always a good thing: it sometimes takes the form of regress.”

stoicism

7,194

“Take it to mind, not to heart.”

stoicism

7,382

“Но в этом-то и состоит сила стоицизма: признание фундаментальной истины, что мы можем контролировать только свое поведение, но не его результаты (не говоря уже о результатах поведения других людей), дает нам способность невозмутимо принимать происходящее. Это происходит, потому что мы знаем: сделано все возможное и все зависящее от нас в данных обстоятельствах.”

stoicism

7,287

“Unless you learn your lesson, it will keep hurting. Not only it will never stop, it will also keep increasing the amount, so you won’t get used to it.”

stoicism

7,461

“It is human to be angry, but childish to be controlled by anger.”

stoicism

7,051

“Most people frequently waste their life, mostly in front of a screen.”

stoicism

7,089

“Conformity eats away individuality.”

stoicism

7,507

“Pitying a living man for being poor is like envying a dead man for being rich.”

stoicism

7,212

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

stoicism

7,084

“Whatever you're going through, there is wisdom from the stoics that can help. In fact, in many cases, they have addressed it explicitly in terms that feel shockingly modern.”

stoicism

7,646

“Sometimes in life we must fight not only without fear, but also without hope.”

stoicism

7,510

“Each man has a character of his own choosing; it is chance or fate that decides his choice of job.”

stoicism

7,146

“Some solutions are seeds of some problems.”

stoicism

7,058

“Even if you had a lot of life left to live, you would need to parcel out your time sparingly so as to have enough for necessities. As it is, with time in such short supply, what madness it is to learn things that are superfluous.”

stoicism

7,206

“We often mistake assuming or hoping for knowing.”

stoicism

7,431

“For a delight in bustling about is not industry - it is only the restless energy of a hunted mind. And the state of mind that looks on all activity as tiresome is not true repose, but a spineless inertia.”

stoicism

7,046

“Things we wouldn't be willing to pay for if it meant giving up our house for them, or some pleasant or productive estate, we are quite ready to obtain at the cost of anxiety, of danger, of losing our freedom, our decency, our time.”

stoicism

7,479

“Most people will leave you with the impression that the main function of our emotions is to cloud our judgement.”

stoicism

7,351

“Some people who have been sentenced for life for crimes they did not commit are usually blissful, whereas many people who can go to any part of planet earth are usually miserable.”

stoicism

7,272

“I have, I hold whatever of mine I have ever had. There is no reason for you to suppose me conquered and yourself my conqueror. It is your fortune which has overcome mine. As for those fleeting possessions which change their owners, I know not where they are; what belongs to myself is with me, and ever will be.”

stoicism

7,393

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

stoicism

7,285

“A truth whispered is not less truthful. And an untruth shouted is not less untruthful.”

stoicism

7,119

“Most people want more than they have without having made the most of what they have.”

stoicism

7,612

“But is life really worth so much? Let us examine this; it's a different inquiry. We will offer no solace for so desolate a prison house; we will encourage no one to endure the overlordship of butchers. We shall rather show that in every kind of slavery, the road of freedom lies open. I will say to the man to whom it befell to have a king shoot arrows at his dear ones [Prexaspes], and to him whose master makes fathers banquet on their sons' guts [Harpagus]: 'What are you groaning for, fool?... Everywhere you look you find an end to your sufferings. You see that steep drop-off? It leads down to freedom. You see that ocean, that river, that well? Freedom lies at its bottom. You see that short, shriveled, bare tree? Freedom hangs from it.... You ask, what is the path to freedom? Any vein in your body.”

stoicism

7,215

“There is a switch in the air tonight. It’s not suffocating, like breakups all those years ago, but clean and clear. He does not want me anymore so I tilt my head, take a breath and say, “Okay. I understand.” It’s calm now. My heart didn’t break, it kept on beating like a stoic marching forward without looking back, and I will be a writer now. I love so many people, still. I think I will write about them forever.”

stoicism

7,599

“Life is how you look at it.”

stoicism

7,119

“Most people want more than they have without having made the most of what they have.”

stoicism

7,376

“Happiness is an inevitable result of embracing, and unhappiness that of rejecting, what is.”

stoicism

7,433

“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law. And if any instance of pain or pleasure, glory or disgrace, be set before you, remember that now is the combat, now the Olympiad comes on, nor can it be put off; and that by one failure and defeat honor may be lost or—won.”

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