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7,547	“Life is yet to produce someone who is loved by or important to everyone.”	stoicism
6,785	“What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.”	stoicism
7,480	“What a singularly deep impression her injustice seems to have made on your heart! No ill-usage so brands its record on my feelings. Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.”	stoicism
7,170	“You can wear an expensive watch and still be late.”	stoicism
7,563	“The fact that our minds are problem-solving machines says a lot about the nature of life.”	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
7,019	“An apology is usually a disguised request for a key to the cage of guilt or regret.”	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
7,551	“When you pursue wisdom, you will soon realize how much you don’t know. Your knowledge will be incomplete, but continually developing through your curiosity. Arrogance blocks new information from coming in. When you’re conceited, you’ll resist change, and struggle to preserve your fixed image. Don’t fall into smug idleness, used to comfort. Challenge what you think you know, not caring if other people see you as a fool. Progress daily in your own uncertainty.”	stoicism
7,104	“It is a humbling practice to make a mental note whenever your assumption turns out to be wrong.”	stoicism
7,398	“Our mind can be in heaven while our body is in hell. And vice versa.”	stoicism
7,288	“You are indeed a man of sorrows and have suffered much...pray be seated now, here on this chair, and let us leave our sorrows, bitter though they are, locked up in our own hearts, for weeping is cold comfort and does little good.”	stoicism
6,906	“Pursuing similar results for dissimilar people will make fools of kings and kings of fools.”	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
7,457	“A fool is a man who disregards legacy.”	stoicism
7,609	“The Sage desires only one thing, virtue, and he is cautious about only one thing, vice. He is the same in every circumstance because what is most important lies within him, and not with external events, which are constantly changing.”	stoicism
7,267	“Stoicism is designed to be medicine for the soul.”	stoicism
7,596	“When you are disturbed by events and lose your serenity, quickly return to yourself and don't stay upset longer than the experience lasts; for you'll have more mastery over your inner harmony by continually returning to it.”	stoicism
7,496	“Men are of little worth. Their brief lives last a single day. They cannot hold elusive pleasure fast; It melts away. All laurels wither; all illusions fade; Hopes have been phantoms, shade on air-built shade, since time began.”	stoicism
7,246	“You have not yet reaped the sweetest fruits of meditation, if you still do not meditate only to meditate.”	stoicism
7,363	“Sleep is often a form of escapism.”	stoicism
6,992	“I am acting on behalf of later generations. I am writing down a few things that may be of use to them.”	stoicism
7,141	“It is joyful to see someone who is hopeful in a situation that is hopeless.”	stoicism
7,171	“A family member is initially loved out of expectation … and is eventually loved out of habit.”	stoicism
7,212	“Wishing is usually an indirect way of feeling sorry for yourself.”	stoicism
7,259	“Part of patience is knowing your truth and staying loyal to it; you just can’t allow your face to betray what an attack on it actually makes you feel.”	stoicism
7,384	“why should I demand from fortune that she should give me this and that rather than demand from myself that I should not ask for them? why should I ask for them, after all? am I to pile them up in total forgetfulness of the frailty of human existence?”	stoicism
7,042	“Most people usually talk faster than they think.”	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
6,928	“me dulcis saturet quies; obscuro positus loco leni perfruar otio, nullis nota Quiritibus aetas per tacitum fluat. sic cum transierint mei nullo cum strepitu dies. plebeius moriar senex. illi mors gravis incubat qui, notus nimis omnibus, ignotus moritur sibi.”	stoicism
6,921	“The closest we can get to “winning” at life is to never give up.”	stoicism
7,389	“How was your day?’ ought to be ‘How did you look at your day?”	stoicism
6,957	“Associate with those who will make a better of man. Welcome those whom yourself can improve. Men learn while they teach.”	stoicism
7,582	“The willing are led by fate, the reluctant are dragged.”	stoicism
6,867	“But there can be no such good except as the soul discovers it for itself within itself.”	stoicism
6,900	“Yet the object of our focus is not to be chosen lightly. In the marketplace of ambitions, dreams are sold in all sizes and shapes. But true fulfillment and achievement do not lie in the mere attainment of goals, but rather in the pursuit of those that are truly worthy. A target, after all, gives direction to our arrow, but the archer’s glory lies not in merely hitting the target, but in striking one that demands skill and character.”	stoicism
7,574	“Within, the only place where it is created, is the very last place most pursuers of happiness are likely to go.”	stoicism
6,940	“Tomorrow will arrive, come what may. The sun will rise, as it has always done, and will set in the evening when nature commands it.”	stoicism
6,952	“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”	stoicism
7,133	“Sometimes the only thing you can do is accept the fact that there is nothing you can do.”	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
7,296	“Destroying your mirrors hides your ugliness or facial blemishes from only you.”	stoicism
7,657	“She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.”	stoicism
7,266	“Halleck came from people who regarded a slight change of facial expression as adequate to convey the pain of a severed limb.”	stoicism
7,285	“A truth whispered is not less truthful. And an untruth shouted is not less untruthful.”	stoicism
7,118	“Intelligent people question everything. Stupid people answer every question.”	stoicism
7,166	“You cannot really not care about what others think about you, yet care about whether or not they know that you do not care about what they think about you.”	stoicism
7,491	“Unlike existing, living requires effort.”	stoicism
6,930	“He is a slave.'' But shall that stand in his way? Show me a man who is not a slave; one is a slave to lust, another to greed, another to ambition, and all men are slaves to fear.”	stoicism
6,785	“What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.”	stoicism
7,262	“Life is a pilgrimage and a struggle. All we have of time is a moment; the universe is in constant flux; our bodies are fragile; our senses grasp so little; our souls are a mist; the future is a fog; and fame is fleeting.”	stoicism
7,195	“Disappointment is an unwanted—but invited—guest.”	stoicism
6,877	“Nothing happens to any creature beyond it’s own natural endurance.”	stoicism
7,663	“No malgastes lo que te queda de vida en conjeturar sobre los demás, a no ser que busques el bien común; pues si te dedicas a imaginar qué hace la gente, por qué, qué dice, que piensa, qué trama, y cosas parecidas, dejarás de observar tu propia conciencia interior.”	stoicism
7,219	“Anxiety is the shadow of what we do not want to lose.”	stoicism
7,080	“Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart—”	stoicism
7,508	“There is a correlation between how hard life seems to us and how easy we expected it to be.”	stoicism
6,939	“We human beings are not hive animals. We aren’t like bees or ants who just work constantly for the good of the community.”	stoicism
7,315	“It is humbling to realize that what you hate (the most) about someone is actually what they love (the most) about themselves.”	stoicism
7,183	“We cannot be too young to die.”	stoicism
7,020	“To act wise isn’t to act wisely.”	stoicism
7,528	“An action is at least a billion times less difficult to choose than a reaction.”	stoicism
7,550	“The first principle of practical Stoicism is this: we don’t react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us.”	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
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
7,185	“Show by a cheerful look that you don't need the help or comfort of others. Standing up - not propped up.”	stoicism
7,377	“Hatred and love are equally enslaving.”	stoicism
7,508	“There is a correlation between how hard life seems to us and how easy we expected it to be.”	stoicism
7,660	“Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.”	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
7,583	“Sometimes, even to live is an act of courage.”	stoicism
6,798	“There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.”	stoicism
7,246	“You have not yet reaped the sweetest fruits of meditation, if you still do not meditate only to meditate.”	stoicism
7,087	“Unlearning makes learning at least three times longer than necessary.”	stoicism
7,014	“Like an attachment to a sparrow: we glimpse it and it’s gone.”	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
7,466	“The probability of something not happening does not decrease as we increase the number of times we worry about the possibility of it happening.”	stoicism
7,041	“Fools act wise, not wisely.”	stoicism
7,209	“Getting something or someone we want is often a guaranteed way to eventually stop us from wanting it, him, or her.”	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
7,008	“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
7,146	“Some solutions are seeds of some problems.”	stoicism
7,035	“Mindfulness is the only doorway to the unhurried life.”	stoicism
7,128	“What is heard is pushed, but what is read is pulled, into the mind.”	stoicism
7,109	“We get addicted, not to the substance, but to the effect.”	stoicism
7,158	“Not everything that could have been done should have been done.”	stoicism
7,346	“Happiness prefers to live inside those who do not have preferences, because it never gets evicted there.”	stoicism
7,458	“We must become friends of despair if we are to be drawn above it to genuine and heartfelt hope. Far from being an exercise in morbidity or arrogance, a deepening acquaintance with our death and with the vanity of human wishes is our worldly hearts a needed path to perfect health (61).”	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
7,198	“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
6,911	“The reaction that art produces in you has more to do with you than it does with art.”	stoicism
7,145	“The world is maintained by change- in the elements and in the things they compose. That should be enough for you; treat it as an axiom.”	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
7,093	“Our rationality is a visitor.”	stoicism
6,915	“Life is short but life is long”	stoicism
7,062	“Praying deceives us into thinking that we are doing something about what we are praying for.”	stoicism
7,434	“Once you start learning from your problems, you stop wishing for a life without problems.”	stoicism
7,201	“The vast majority of people are each a puppet that is forever pulled in this or that direction, or pushed into this or that action, by things such as public opinion and an emotion.”	stoicism
7,474	“Pretty much all wealthy people who were willing to lose and have lost their health while chasing wealth are now willing to lose their wealth while chasing health.”	stoicism
7,354	“Human beings are makers, usually of a mountain out of a molehill.”	stoicism

7,547

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

stoicism

6,785

“What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.”

stoicism

7,480

“What a singularly deep impression her injustice seems to have made on your heart! No ill-usage so brands its record on my feelings. Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.”

stoicism

7,170

“You can wear an expensive watch and still be late.”

stoicism

7,563

“The fact that our minds are problem-solving machines says a lot about the nature of life.”

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

7,019

“An apology is usually a disguised request for a key to the cage of guilt or regret.”

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

7,551

“When you pursue wisdom, you will soon realize how much you don’t know. Your knowledge will be incomplete, but continually developing through your curiosity. Arrogance blocks new information from coming in. When you’re conceited, you’ll resist change, and struggle to preserve your fixed image. Don’t fall into smug idleness, used to comfort. Challenge what you think you know, not caring if other people see you as a fool. Progress daily in your own uncertainty.”

stoicism

7,104

“It is a humbling practice to make a mental note whenever your assumption turns out to be wrong.”

stoicism

7,398

“Our mind can be in heaven while our body is in hell. And vice versa.”

stoicism

7,288

“You are indeed a man of sorrows and have suffered much...pray be seated now, here on this chair, and let us leave our sorrows, bitter though they are, locked up in our own hearts, for weeping is cold comfort and does little good.”

stoicism

6,906

“Pursuing similar results for dissimilar people will make fools of kings and kings of fools.”

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

7,457

“A fool is a man who disregards legacy.”

stoicism

7,609

“The Sage desires only one thing, virtue, and he is cautious about only one thing, vice. He is the same in every circumstance because what is most important lies within him, and not with external events, which are constantly changing.”

stoicism

7,267

“Stoicism is designed to be medicine for the soul.”

stoicism

7,596

“When you are disturbed by events and lose your serenity, quickly return to yourself and don't stay upset longer than the experience lasts; for you'll have more mastery over your inner harmony by continually returning to it.”

stoicism

7,496

“Men are of little worth. Their brief lives last a single day. They cannot hold elusive pleasure fast; It melts away. All laurels wither; all illusions fade; Hopes have been phantoms, shade on air-built shade, since time began.”

stoicism

7,246

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

stoicism

7,363

“Sleep is often a form of escapism.”

stoicism

6,992

“I am acting on behalf of later generations. I am writing down a few things that may be of use to them.”

stoicism

7,141

“It is joyful to see someone who is hopeful in a situation that is hopeless.”

stoicism

7,171

“A family member is initially loved out of expectation … and is eventually loved out of habit.”

stoicism

7,212

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

stoicism

7,259

“Part of patience is knowing your truth and staying loyal to it; you just can’t allow your face to betray what an attack on it actually makes you feel.”

stoicism

7,384

“why should I demand from fortune that she should give me this and that rather than demand from myself that I should not ask for them? why should I ask for them, after all? am I to pile them up in total forgetfulness of the frailty of human existence?”

stoicism

7,042

“Most people usually talk faster than they think.”

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

6,928

“me dulcis saturet quies; obscuro positus loco leni perfruar otio, nullis nota Quiritibus aetas per tacitum fluat. sic cum transierint mei nullo cum strepitu dies. plebeius moriar senex. illi mors gravis incubat qui, notus nimis omnibus, ignotus moritur sibi.”

stoicism

6,921

“The closest we can get to “winning” at life is to never give up.”

stoicism

7,389

“How was your day?’ ought to be ‘How did you look at your day?”

stoicism

6,957

“Associate with those who will make a better of man. Welcome those whom yourself can improve. Men learn while they teach.”

stoicism

7,582

“The willing are led by fate, the reluctant are dragged.”

stoicism

6,867

“But there can be no such good except as the soul discovers it for itself within itself.”

stoicism

6,900

“Yet the object of our focus is not to be chosen lightly. In the marketplace of ambitions, dreams are sold in all sizes and shapes. But true fulfillment and achievement do not lie in the mere attainment of goals, but rather in the pursuit of those that are truly worthy. A target, after all, gives direction to our arrow, but the archer’s glory lies not in merely hitting the target, but in striking one that demands skill and character.”

stoicism

7,574

“Within, the only place where it is created, is the very last place most pursuers of happiness are likely to go.”

stoicism

6,940

“Tomorrow will arrive, come what may. The sun will rise, as it has always done, and will set in the evening when nature commands it.”

stoicism

6,952

“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”

stoicism

7,133

“Sometimes the only thing you can do is accept the fact that there is nothing you can do.”

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

7,296

“Destroying your mirrors hides your ugliness or facial blemishes from only you.”

stoicism

7,657

“She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.”

stoicism

7,266

“Halleck came from people who regarded a slight change of facial expression as adequate to convey the pain of a severed limb.”

stoicism

7,285

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

stoicism

7,118

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

stoicism

7,166

“You cannot really not care about what others think about you, yet care about whether or not they know that you do not care about what they think about you.”

stoicism

7,491

“Unlike existing, living requires effort.”

stoicism

6,930

“He is a slave.'' But shall that stand in his way? Show me a man who is not a slave; one is a slave to lust, another to greed, another to ambition, and all men are slaves to fear.”

stoicism

6,785

“What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.”

stoicism

7,262

“Life is a pilgrimage and a struggle. All we have of time is a moment; the universe is in constant flux; our bodies are fragile; our senses grasp so little; our souls are a mist; the future is a fog; and fame is fleeting.”

stoicism

7,195

“Disappointment is an unwanted—but invited—guest.”

stoicism

6,877

“Nothing happens to any creature beyond it’s own natural endurance.”

stoicism

7,663

“No malgastes lo que te queda de vida en conjeturar sobre los demás, a no ser que busques el bien común; pues si te dedicas a imaginar qué hace la gente, por qué, qué dice, que piensa, qué trama, y cosas parecidas, dejarás de observar tu propia conciencia interior.”

stoicism

7,219

“Anxiety is the shadow of what we do not want to lose.”

stoicism

7,080

“Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart—”

stoicism

7,508

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

stoicism

6,939

“We human beings are not hive animals. We aren’t like bees or ants who just work constantly for the good of the community.”

stoicism

7,315

“It is humbling to realize that what you hate (the most) about someone is actually what they love (the most) about themselves.”

stoicism

7,183

“We cannot be too young to die.”

stoicism

7,020

“To act wise isn’t to act wisely.”

stoicism

7,528

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

stoicism

7,550

“The first principle of practical Stoicism is this: we don’t react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us.”

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

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

7,185

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

stoicism

7,377

“Hatred and love are equally enslaving.”

stoicism

7,508

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

stoicism

7,660

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

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

7,583

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

stoicism

6,798

“There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.”

stoicism

7,246

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

stoicism

7,087

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

stoicism

7,014

“Like an attachment to a sparrow: we glimpse it and it’s gone.”

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

7,466

“The probability of something not happening does not decrease as we increase the number of times we worry about the possibility of it happening.”

stoicism

7,041

“Fools act wise, not wisely.”

stoicism

7,209

“Getting something or someone we want is often a guaranteed way to eventually stop us from wanting it, him, or her.”

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

7,008

“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”

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7,146

“Some solutions are seeds of some problems.”

stoicism

7,035

“Mindfulness is the only doorway to the unhurried life.”

stoicism

7,128

“What is heard is pushed, but what is read is pulled, into the mind.”

stoicism

7,109

“We get addicted, not to the substance, but to the effect.”

stoicism

7,158

“Not everything that could have been done should have been done.”

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7,346

“Happiness prefers to live inside those who do not have preferences, because it never gets evicted there.”

stoicism

7,458

“We must become friends of despair if we are to be drawn above it to genuine and heartfelt hope. Far from being an exercise in morbidity or arrogance, a deepening acquaintance with our death and with the vanity of human wishes is our worldly hearts a needed path to perfect health (61).”

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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

7,198

“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

6,911

“The reaction that art produces in you has more to do with you than it does with art.”

stoicism

7,145

“The world is maintained by change- in the elements and in the things they compose. That should be enough for you; treat it as an axiom.”

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

7,093

“Our rationality is a visitor.”

stoicism

6,915

“Life is short but life is long”

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7,062

“Praying deceives us into thinking that we are doing something about what we are praying for.”

stoicism

7,434

“Once you start learning from your problems, you stop wishing for a life without problems.”

stoicism

7,201

“The vast majority of people are each a puppet that is forever pulled in this or that direction, or pushed into this or that action, by things such as public opinion and an emotion.”

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7,474

“Pretty much all wealthy people who were willing to lose and have lost their health while chasing wealth are now willing to lose their wealth while chasing health.”

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7,354

“Human beings are makers, usually of a mountain out of a molehill.”

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