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7,085	“The goodness inside you is like a small flame, and you are its keeper. It’s your job, today and every day, to make sure that it has enough fuel, that it doesn’t get obstructed or snuffed out. Every person has their own version of the flame and is responsible for it, just as you are. If they all fail, the world will be much darker—that is something you don’t control. But so long as your flame flickers, there will be some light in the world.”	stoicism
7,457	“A fool is a man who disregards legacy.”	stoicism
7,565	“Suffering and happiness are not mutually exclusive.”	stoicism
7,362	“The degree of our happiness is not determined by (what we regard as) the source of our happiness.”	stoicism
6,883	“Stand up straight, not straightened. The Gods give us everything, but not all at once.”	stoicism
6,809	“If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.”	stoicism
7,070	“If one accomplishes some good though with toil, the toil passes, but the good remains; if one does something dishonourable with pleasure, the pleasure passes, but the dishonour remains.”	stoicism
6,993	“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.”	stoicism
7,087	“Unlearning makes learning at least three times longer than necessary.”	stoicism
7,118	“Intelligent people question everything. Stupid people answer every question.”	stoicism
6,884	“In your conversation, don’t dwell at excessive length on your own deeds or adventures. Just because you enjoy recounting your exploits doesn’t mean that others derive the same pleasure from hearing about them.”	stoicism
7,467	“It takes patience to nurture patience.”	stoicism
7,092	“Most people celebrate the continuity of their existence so passionately that you would swear they chose to exist.”	stoicism
7,337	“Escaping death is a temporary victory.”	stoicism
6,809	“If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.”	stoicism
7,635	“When you give your items away, don’t keep the excess of your pride.”	stoicism
6,809	“If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.”	stoicism
7,628	“Sine philosophia nemo intrepide potest vivere, nemo secure.”	stoicism
7,518	“We can always choose not what we see but how we look at what we see.”	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
7,031	“A man asked me to write to Rome on his behalf who, as most people thought, had met with misfortune; for having been before wealthy and distinguished, he had afterwards lost all and was living here. So I wrote about him in a humble style. He however on reading the letter returned it to me, with the words: "I asked for your help, not for your pity. No evil has happened unto me.”	stoicism
6,985	“Every life without exception is a short one.”	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
7,105	“Ideally, a Stoic will be oblivious to the services he does for others, as oblivious as a grapevine is when it yields a cluster of grapes to a vintner. He will not pause to boast about the service he has performed but will move on to perform his next service, the way the grape vine moves on to bear more grapes.”	stoicism
6,937	“Our minds are a sanctuary; a safe haven which is totally impregnable to the outside world. It is only when we allow external problems and anxieties to enter our mind that this sanctuary becomes vulnerable.”	stoicism
6,861	“That on which you so pride yourself will be your ruin, you who think yourself to be somebody.”	stoicism
7,122	“Mental suffering is an inferno started, and kept burning, by thinking; and its smoke sometimes leaves one crying.”	stoicism
7,340	“Heartless’ is a label that is all too often wrongly given to someone who is rational by someone who is emotional.”	stoicism
7,340	“Heartless’ is a label that is all too often wrongly given to someone who is rational by someone who is emotional.”	stoicism
7,585	“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself, "I have to go to work - as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I'm going to do what I was born for - the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?”	stoicism
7,450	“We always have a choice as to, not what we hear, but what we listen to.”	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
7,132	“We do not need to lose people or things to appreciate them.”	stoicism
7,326	“What some people regard as an expression of freedom is actually that of slavery.”	stoicism
7,114	“Does anything genuinely beautiful need supplementing? No more than justice does- or truth, or kindness, or humility. Are any of those improved by being praised? Or damaged by contempt? Is an emerald suddenly flawed if no one admires it?”	stoicism
7,462	“You can be hurt, not by what others think of you, but by what you think of what they think or you think they think of you.”	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
7,125	“He who has more money or possessions than you is not necessarily happier than you, happy more often than you, or happy like you.”	stoicism
6,960	“The part of life we really live is small. For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.”	stoicism
7,436	“If someone in the street were entrusted with your body, you would be furious. Yet you entrust your mind to anyone around who happens to insult you, and allow it to be troubled and confused. Aren’t you ashamed of that?”	stoicism
7,191	“Time and money are almost always saved to be wasted.”	stoicism
7,469	“What are virtues, if not practiced evenly in both times of joy and in hardships?”	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
6,902	“True focus is the ability to summon our mental strength when it is required and to let it rest when it is not.”	stoicism
7,516	“What”	stoicism
7,326	“What some people regard as an expression of freedom is actually that of slavery.”	stoicism
7,595	“What would Heracles have been if he had said, "How am I to prevent a big lion from appearing, or a big boar, or brutal men?" What care you, I say? If a big boar appears, you will have a greater struggle to engage in; if evil men appear, you will free the world from evil men.”	stoicism
7,530	“You cannot be blessed with the ability to be happy without being cursed with the ability to be unhappy.”	stoicism
6,800	“It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.”	stoicism
7,304	“How does a person deal with all the heartache and tragedy that fills their life without becoming insane or committing suicide?”	stoicism
7,195	“Disappointment is an unwanted—but invited—guest.”	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
7,441	“[P]leasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.”	stoicism
7,132	“We do not need to lose people or things to appreciate them.”	stoicism
7,206	“We often mistake assuming or hoping for knowing.”	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
7,320	“Education almost always leaves stupidity intact.”	stoicism
6,851	“Sometimes silence is a sign, not of not knowing what to say, but of knowing when to say what you know.”	stoicism
7,125	“He who has more money or possessions than you is not necessarily happier than you, happy more often than you, or happy like you.”	stoicism
7,027	“Cecilia, the youngest, only thirteen, had gone first, slitting her wrists like a Stoic while taking a bath, and when they found her, afloat in her pink pool, with the yellow eyes of someone possessed and her small body giving off the odor of a mature woman, the paramedics had been so frightened by her tranquillity that they had stood mesmerized.”	stoicism
7,487	“Once you make a decision and then act on it, you have actually fulfilled the object of the game. This will probably surprise you, but what happens next in the hand after you act is not important. It does not matter what your opponents do next and it's immaterial whether or not you win the hand. The most important thing is that you understand why you're making the play and what goal you're trying to accomplish.”	stoicism
7,358	“And, just as it is harder to have good qualities when one is rich than when one is poor, it is harder to be a Stoic when one is wealthy, powerful, and respected than when one is destitute, miserable, and lonely.”	stoicism
7,293	“It is foolish to give up on yourself. And doubly so to do that before everyone has given up on you.”	stoicism
7,064	“Hatred is as powerful an intoxicant as love.”	stoicism
6,993	“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.”	stoicism
7,294	“When you are unhappy, happy people are disgusting.”	stoicism
6,815	“Remember that all we have is “on loan” from Fortune, which can reclaim it without our permission—indeed, without even advance notice. Thus, we should love all our dear ones, but always with the thought that we have no promise that we may keep them forever—nay, no promise even that we may keep them for long.”	stoicism
7,436	“If someone in the street were entrusted with your body, you would be furious. Yet you entrust your mind to anyone around who happens to insult you, and allow it to be troubled and confused. Aren’t you ashamed of that?”	stoicism
6,882	“Stand up straight, not straightened The Gods give us everything, but not all at once.”	stoicism
7,002	“Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.”	stoicism
6,786	“For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that counts virtue the only good, baseness the only evil, and all else but a worthless mass of things, which come and go without increasing or diminishing the highest good, and neither subtract any part from the happy life nor add any part to it? A man thus grounded must, whether he wills or not, necessarily be attended by constant cheerfulness and a joy that is deep and issues from deep within, since he finds delight in his own resources, and desires no joys greater than his inner joys.”	stoicism
7,129	“Life cannot, not even for a millisecond, remain exactly how it is.”	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
7,635	“When you give your items away, don’t keep the excess of your pride.”	stoicism
7,469	“What are virtues, if not practiced evenly in both times of joy and in hardships?”	stoicism
7,217	“You have two essential tasks in life: to be a good person and to pursue the occupation that you love. Everything else is a waste of energy and a squandering of your potential.”	stoicism
7,625	“These...xistential qualms you suffer, they just mean you're truly human. I aked how I might remedy them. "You don´t remedy them. You live thru them.”	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
7,444	“The weaker the desire to change, the further away from now is the moment from which we plan on changing.”	stoicism
7,095	“It is sometimes foolish to assume that someone is wise, or vice versa.”	stoicism
7,236	“Unhappiness and the like often inspire us to perform random acts of unkindness.”	stoicism
7,183	“We cannot be too young to die.”	stoicism
7,224	“It is impossible to separate the art of living from the art of dying, because to be living is to be dying.”	stoicism
7,355	“Life is happening neither to nor for but through us.”	stoicism
7,002	“Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.”	stoicism
6,993	“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.”	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
7,181	“Being spiritually asleep has deceived the vast majority of people into thinking that poverty is a poor person’s main problem in life. To those who are spiritually awake, poverty is not even a problem.”	stoicism
7,341	“There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and how many problems it gives us.”	stoicism
7,104	“It is a humbling practice to make a mental note whenever your assumption turns out to be wrong.”	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
6,806	“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”	stoicism
7,047	“Count yourself fortunate when you are able to live in a manner open to the public—when walls are there for shelter, not for concealment. For as a rule we think we have walls around us not to protect us but to afford greater privacy to our misdeeds.”	stoicism
6,965	“Thinking of departed friends is to me something sweet and mellow. For when I had them with me it was with the feeling that I was going to lose them, and now that I have lost them I keep the feeling that I have them with me still.”	stoicism
7,633	“Seek not for events to happen as you wish but rather wish for events to happen as they do and your life will go smoothly.”	stoicism
7,253	“It is a curse to be childish, but a blessing to be childlike.”	stoicism
7,011	“Show me one who is sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy. Show him me. By the gods I would fain see a Stoic. Nay you cannot show me a finished Stoic; then show me one in the moulding, one who has set his feet on the path”	stoicism
7,093	“Our rationality is a visitor.”	stoicism
7,500	“We ought not, therefore, to give over our hearts for good to any one part of the world. We should live with the conviction: 'I wasn‟t born for one particular corner: the whole world‟s my home country.”	stoicism
6,961	“Add nothing of your own from within, and that's an end of it.”	stoicism

7,085

“The goodness inside you is like a small flame, and you are its keeper. It’s your job, today and every day, to make sure that it has enough fuel, that it doesn’t get obstructed or snuffed out. Every person has their own version of the flame and is responsible for it, just as you are. If they all fail, the world will be much darker—that is something you don’t control. But so long as your flame flickers, there will be some light in the world.”

stoicism

7,457

“A fool is a man who disregards legacy.”

stoicism

7,565

“Suffering and happiness are not mutually exclusive.”

stoicism

7,362

“The degree of our happiness is not determined by (what we regard as) the source of our happiness.”

stoicism

6,883

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

stoicism

6,809

“If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.”

stoicism

7,070

“If one accomplishes some good though with toil, the toil passes, but the good remains; if one does something dishonourable with pleasure, the pleasure passes, but the dishonour remains.”

stoicism

6,993

“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.”

stoicism

7,087

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

stoicism

7,118

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

stoicism

6,884

“In your conversation, don’t dwell at excessive length on your own deeds or adventures. Just because you enjoy recounting your exploits doesn’t mean that others derive the same pleasure from hearing about them.”

stoicism

7,467

“It takes patience to nurture patience.”

stoicism

7,092

“Most people celebrate the continuity of their existence so passionately that you would swear they chose to exist.”

stoicism

7,337

“Escaping death is a temporary victory.”

stoicism

6,809

“If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.”

stoicism

7,635

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

stoicism

6,809

“If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.”

stoicism

7,628

“Sine philosophia nemo intrepide potest vivere, nemo secure.”

stoicism

7,518

“We can always choose not what we see but how we look at what we see.”

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

7,031

“A man asked me to write to Rome on his behalf who, as most people thought, had met with misfortune; for having been before wealthy and distinguished, he had afterwards lost all and was living here. So I wrote about him in a humble style. He however on reading the letter returned it to me, with the words: "I asked for your help, not for your pity. No evil has happened unto me.”

stoicism

6,985

“Every life without exception is a short one.”

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

7,105

“Ideally, a Stoic will be oblivious to the services he does for others, as oblivious as a grapevine is when it yields a cluster of grapes to a vintner. He will not pause to boast about the service he has performed but will move on to perform his next service, the way the grape vine moves on to bear more grapes.”

stoicism

6,937

“Our minds are a sanctuary; a safe haven which is totally impregnable to the outside world. It is only when we allow external problems and anxieties to enter our mind that this sanctuary becomes vulnerable.”

stoicism

6,861

“That on which you so pride yourself will be your ruin, you who think yourself to be somebody.”

stoicism

7,122

“Mental suffering is an inferno started, and kept burning, by thinking; and its smoke sometimes leaves one crying.”

stoicism

7,340

“Heartless’ is a label that is all too often wrongly given to someone who is rational by someone who is emotional.”

stoicism

7,340

“Heartless’ is a label that is all too often wrongly given to someone who is rational by someone who is emotional.”

stoicism

7,585

“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself, "I have to go to work - as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I'm going to do what I was born for - the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?”

stoicism

7,450

“We always have a choice as to, not what we hear, but what we listen to.”

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

7,132

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

stoicism

7,326

“What some people regard as an expression of freedom is actually that of slavery.”

stoicism

7,114

“Does anything genuinely beautiful need supplementing? No more than justice does- or truth, or kindness, or humility. Are any of those improved by being praised? Or damaged by contempt? Is an emerald suddenly flawed if no one admires it?”

stoicism

7,462

“You can be hurt, not by what others think of you, but by what you think of what they think or you think they think of you.”

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

7,125

“He who has more money or possessions than you is not necessarily happier than you, happy more often than you, or happy like you.”

stoicism

6,960

“The part of life we really live is small. For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.”

stoicism

7,436

“If someone in the street were entrusted with your body, you would be furious. Yet you entrust your mind to anyone around who happens to insult you, and allow it to be troubled and confused. Aren’t you ashamed of that?”

stoicism

7,191

“Time and money are almost always saved to be wasted.”

stoicism

7,469

“What are virtues, if not practiced evenly in both times of joy and in hardships?”

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

6,902

“True focus is the ability to summon our mental strength when it is required and to let it rest when it is not.”

stoicism

7,516

“What”

stoicism

7,326

“What some people regard as an expression of freedom is actually that of slavery.”

stoicism

7,595

“What would Heracles have been if he had said, "How am I to prevent a big lion from appearing, or a big boar, or brutal men?" What care you, I say? If a big boar appears, you will have a greater struggle to engage in; if evil men appear, you will free the world from evil men.”

stoicism

7,530

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

stoicism

6,800

“It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.”

stoicism

7,304

“How does a person deal with all the heartache and tragedy that fills their life without becoming insane or committing suicide?”

stoicism

7,195

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

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

7,441

“[P]leasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.”

stoicism

7,132

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

stoicism

7,206

“We often mistake assuming or hoping for knowing.”

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

7,320

“Education almost always leaves stupidity intact.”

stoicism

6,851

“Sometimes silence is a sign, not of not knowing what to say, but of knowing when to say what you know.”

stoicism

7,125

“He who has more money or possessions than you is not necessarily happier than you, happy more often than you, or happy like you.”

stoicism

7,027

“Cecilia, the youngest, only thirteen, had gone first, slitting her wrists like a Stoic while taking a bath, and when they found her, afloat in her pink pool, with the yellow eyes of someone possessed and her small body giving off the odor of a mature woman, the paramedics had been so frightened by her tranquillity that they had stood mesmerized.”

stoicism

7,487

“Once you make a decision and then act on it, you have actually fulfilled the object of the game. This will probably surprise you, but what happens next in the hand after you act is not important. It does not matter what your opponents do next and it's immaterial whether or not you win the hand. The most important thing is that you understand why you're making the play and what goal you're trying to accomplish.”

stoicism

7,358

“And, just as it is harder to have good qualities when one is rich than when one is poor, it is harder to be a Stoic when one is wealthy, powerful, and respected than when one is destitute, miserable, and lonely.”

stoicism

7,293

“It is foolish to give up on yourself. And doubly so to do that before everyone has given up on you.”

stoicism

7,064

“Hatred is as powerful an intoxicant as love.”

stoicism

6,993

“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.”

stoicism

7,294

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

stoicism

6,815

“Remember that all we have is “on loan” from Fortune, which can reclaim it without our permission—indeed, without even advance notice. Thus, we should love all our dear ones, but always with the thought that we have no promise that we may keep them forever—nay, no promise even that we may keep them for long.”

stoicism

7,436

“If someone in the street were entrusted with your body, you would be furious. Yet you entrust your mind to anyone around who happens to insult you, and allow it to be troubled and confused. Aren’t you ashamed of that?”

stoicism

6,882

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

stoicism

7,002

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

stoicism

6,786

“For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that counts virtue the only good, baseness the only evil, and all else but a worthless mass of things, which come and go without increasing or diminishing the highest good, and neither subtract any part from the happy life nor add any part to it? A man thus grounded must, whether he wills or not, necessarily be attended by constant cheerfulness and a joy that is deep and issues from deep within, since he finds delight in his own resources, and desires no joys greater than his inner joys.”

stoicism

7,129

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

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

7,635

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

stoicism

7,469

“What are virtues, if not practiced evenly in both times of joy and in hardships?”

stoicism

7,217

“You have two essential tasks in life: to be a good person and to pursue the occupation that you love. Everything else is a waste of energy and a squandering of your potential.”

stoicism

7,625

“These...xistential qualms you suffer, they just mean you're truly human. I aked how I might remedy them. "You don´t remedy them. You live thru them.”

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

7,444

“The weaker the desire to change, the further away from now is the moment from which we plan on changing.”

stoicism

7,095

“It is sometimes foolish to assume that someone is wise, or vice versa.”

stoicism

7,236

“Unhappiness and the like often inspire us to perform random acts of unkindness.”

stoicism

7,183

“We cannot be too young to die.”

stoicism

7,224

“It is impossible to separate the art of living from the art of dying, because to be living is to be dying.”

stoicism

7,355

“Life is happening neither to nor for but through us.”

stoicism

7,002

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

stoicism

6,993

“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.”

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

7,181

“Being spiritually asleep has deceived the vast majority of people into thinking that poverty is a poor person’s main problem in life. To those who are spiritually awake, poverty is not even a problem.”

stoicism

7,341

“There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and how many problems it gives us.”

stoicism

7,104

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

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

6,806

“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”

stoicism

7,047

“Count yourself fortunate when you are able to live in a manner open to the public—when walls are there for shelter, not for concealment. For as a rule we think we have walls around us not to protect us but to afford greater privacy to our misdeeds.”

stoicism

6,965

“Thinking of departed friends is to me something sweet and mellow. For when I had them with me it was with the feeling that I was going to lose them, and now that I have lost them I keep the feeling that I have them with me still.”

stoicism

7,633

“Seek not for events to happen as you wish but rather wish for events to happen as they do and your life will go smoothly.”

stoicism

7,253

“It is a curse to be childish, but a blessing to be childlike.”

stoicism

7,011

“Show me one who is sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy. Show him me. By the gods I would fain see a Stoic. Nay you cannot show me a finished Stoic; then show me one in the moulding, one who has set his feet on the path”

stoicism

7,093

“Our rationality is a visitor.”

stoicism

7,500

“We ought not, therefore, to give over our hearts for good to any one part of the world. We should live with the conviction: 'I wasn‟t born for one particular corner: the whole world‟s my home country.”

stoicism

6,961

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

stoicism