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7,147	“You can be too old to live, but not too young to die.”	stoicism
7,668	“The Greeks not only face facts. They have no desire to escape from them.”	stoicism
7,327	“Engineers can prove that a bumblebee, with its heavy body and little bitty wings, can't fly. But nobody tells the bumblebees ... and they fly just fine.”	stoicism
7,296	“Destroying your mirrors hides your ugliness or facial blemishes from only you.”	stoicism
6,922	“There will come a day when i will be able to resist and control my emotions... And when that day comes, i will know that i truly made it,”	stoicism
7,503	“There is no need to raise our hands to heaven; there is no need to implore the temple warden to allow us close to the ear of some graven image, as though this increased the chances of our being heard. God is near you, is with you, is inside you.”	stoicism
6,975	“The most beautiful things come from the hardest conditions.”	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
7,042	“Most people usually talk faster than they think.”	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
7,005	“Consider above all else whether you've advanced in philosophy or just in actual years.”	stoicism
7,621	“It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the one who hankers after more.”	stoicism
7,509	“You cannot attain everlasting peace of mind unless you stop seeing your mind as yourself and start seeing yourself as your mind’s guardian.”	stoicism
7,290	“Let death and exile and every other thing which appears dreadful be daily before your eyes; but most of all death: and you will never think of anything mean nor will you desire anything extravagantly.”	stoicism
7,447	“The most effective way to understand the dissonance between our thoughts about reality and reality itself, is to consider how many times we've felt like our world is ending and how many times it actually has.”	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
7,495	“Where you arrive does not matter as much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there.”	stoicism
7,270	“See? You're using the stoic glacier method." "Remind me, what's the stoic glacier method?" "It's the slow process of shaping someone's behavior by force of one's own personal stoicism.”	stoicism
6,886	“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.”	stoicism
7,155	“We each unwittingly contribute, each and every day, to the preventions and to the causes of millions of accidents.”	stoicism
7,113	“It was for the best. So Nature had no choice but to do it.”	stoicism
7,353	“If you work at that which is before you, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing anything else to distract you, but keeping your divine part pure, as if you should be bound to give it back immediately; if you hold to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with your present activity according to nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which you utter, you will live happy. And there is no-one who is able to prevent this.”	stoicism
7,164	“If you care about yourself at all, come to your own aid while there’s still time.”	stoicism
6,833	“And why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice.”	stoicism
7,486	“Tomorrow’s worries contaminate the present.”	stoicism
7,490	“Melancholy isn't always a disorder that needs to be cured. It can be a species of intelligent grief which arises when we come face-to-face with the certainty that disappointment is written into the script from the start.”	stoicism
6,841	“[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.”	stoicism
7,558	“It takes courage to speak or react way slower than you think.”	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
7,089	“Conformity eats away individuality.”	stoicism
7,107	“We cannot but obey the powers above us. Could I rage and roar as doth the sea She lies in, yet the end must be as ’tis.”	stoicism
7,135	“We do things for others for ourselves.”	stoicism
7,264	“Najlepší spôsob obrany je nepodobať sa tým, čo nám ubližujú.”	stoicism
7,376	“Happiness is an inevitable result of embracing, and unhappiness that of rejecting, what is.”	stoicism
6,935	“The only good and evil in your life lies within you – in your choices.”	stoicism
7,313	“A fool’s plans are entertainment for the wise.”	stoicism
6,780	“People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?”	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
7,498	“We have control over when, how, and where to plant a seed, not over what it will become.”	stoicism
7,570	“It is our natural and moral duty as consumers of other living things to someday die.”	stoicism
6,871	“Ought not then this robber and this adulterer to be destroyed? By no means say so, but speak rather this way: This man who has been mistaken and deceived about the most important things, and blinded, not in the faculty of vision which distinguishes white and black, but in the faculty which distinguishes good and bad, should we destroy him? If you speak thus you will see how inhuman this is which you say, and that it is just as if you would say, Ought we not destroy this blind and deaf man?”	stoicism
7,194	“Take it to mind, not to heart.”	stoicism
7,161	“People seek retreats for themselves in the countryside by the seashore, in the hills, and you too have made it your habit to long for that above all else. But this is altogether unphilosophical, when it is possible for you to retreat into yourself whenever you please; for nowhere can one retreat into greater peace or freedom from care than within one’s own soul, especially when a person has such things within him that he merely has to look at them to recover from that moment perfect ease of mind (and by ease of mind I mean nothing other than having one’s mind in good order). So constantly grant yourself this retreat and so renew yourself; but keep within you concise and basic precepts that will be enough, at first encounter, to cleanse you from all distress and to send you back without discontent to the life to which you will return.”	stoicism
7,548	“They who always expect the worst are almost always pleasantly surprised.”	stoicism
6,983	“Do not trust her seeming calm; in a moment the sea is moved to its depths.”	stoicism
7,460	“A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.”	stoicism
6,857	“Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasure-house of your soul, there are infinitely precious things that may not be taken from you.”	stoicism
7,322	“[...] so läßt der, welcher der Lust nachjagt, alles andere liegen, und die Freiheit ist das erste, was er preisgibt [...]”	stoicism
7,170	“You can wear an expensive watch and still be late.”	stoicism
7,357	“The thing whose acquisition ‘made’ you happy need not be stolen, lost, or broken for ‘it’ to make you unhappy.”	stoicism
7,658	“A properly educated leader, especially when harassed and under pressure, will know from his study of history and the classics that circumstances very much like those he is encountering have occurred from time to time on this earth since the beginning of history. He will avoid the self-indulgent error of seeing himself in a predicament so unprecedented, so unique, as to justify his making an exception to law, custom or morality in favor of himself. The making of such exceptions has been the theme of public life throughout much of our lifetimes. For twenty years, we've been surrounded by gamesmen unable to cope with the wisdom of the ages. They make exceptions to law and custom in favor of themselves because they choose to view ordinary dilemmas as unprecedented crises.”	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
7,441	“[P]leasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.”	stoicism
7,232	“A thing named, misnamed, unnamed, or renamed is still itself.”	stoicism
7,361	“Love, unless it is for life as a whole, is contaminated by things such as our preferences and memories.”	stoicism
7,079	“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”	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
6,861	“That on which you so pride yourself will be your ruin, you who think yourself to be somebody.”	stoicism
7,429	“Zeno is our friend but truth is an even greater friend.”	stoicism
7,442	“Running is a form of practiced stoicism. It means teaching your brain and body to be biochemically comfortable in a state of disrepair.”	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
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
7,634	“How could I admit that the All-American Girl's force field of stoicism and self-reliance and do-unto-others-and-keep-smiling wasn't working, wasn't keeping pain and shame and powerlessness away? From a young age I had learned to get over - to cover my tracks emotionally, to hide or ignore my problems in the belief that they were mine alone to solve. So when exhilarating transgressions required getting over on authority figures, I knew how to do it. I was a great bluffer. And when common, everyday survival in prison required getting over, I could do that too. This is what was approvingly described by my fellow prisoners as 'street-smarts,' as in 'You wouldn't think it to look at her, but Piper's got street-smarts.”	stoicism
6,771	“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”	stoicism
6,994	“Every hour of the day, countless situations arise that call for advice, and for that advice we have to look to philosophy.”	stoicism
7,570	“It is our natural and moral duty as consumers of other living things to someday die.”	stoicism
7,514	“We lose a significant portion of our lives attending ceremonies for people who have lost theirs.”	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
6,885	“You will feel pain. You need to accept this truth. ... When it comes, accept it; embrace it. Realize it's a sensation like any other...the same as being hot or cold. Put it to one side and do what must be done. Don't let it overwhelm or control you. Ever.”	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
6,872	“Therefore we ought to exercise ourselves in small things, and beginning with them to proceed to the greater.”	stoicism
6,963	“Kindness has become so rare that it provokes perplexity about what's sincere and what's deceitful.”	stoicism
6,935	“The only good and evil in your life lies within you – in your choices.”	stoicism
7,640	“What fortune has made yours is not your own.”	stoicism
6,859	“Alles Schöne, von welcher Art es auch sein mag, ist an und für sich schön und in sich selbst vollendet. Das Lob bildet keinen Bestandteil seines Wesens, und es wird mithin durch dasselbe weder schlechter noch besser.”	stoicism
7,455	“The older you are, and the faster you walk, the crazier you look.”	stoicism
6,891	“Life will question you in its vital moments. It's up to you in how you'll respond. You might have drifted from the principles that you once followed. You could've indulged in vices or fallen into unthinking habits. It's your choice to start your practice again. Remind yourself of what's valuable and then act. You still have a choice to be brave, temperate, and wise.”	stoicism
6,912	“A good story has no end, it continues being a part of reality well after its last point by forming a union with us.”	stoicism
6,875	“These deep interactions with Greek and Roman culture, to include Stoic philosophy, certainly affected the zeitgeist of the era and most certainly impacted the educational theories in the early days of the Republic. With so much interest in reviving and adopting elements of Stoic philosophy within America, many intended references to Stoic ethics may be hidden within the works of the early generations of America, as they explicitly referenced “American” ideals that would have incorporated Stoic philosophy.”	stoicism
7,656	“So the life of a philosopher extends widely: he is not confined by the same boundary as are others. He alone is free from the laws that limit the human race, and all ages serve him as though he were a god.”	stoicism
7,197	“A child is one of the most common results of the lack or loss of self-control.”	stoicism
7,074	“Most adults make adulthood seem like a disease that is caused by a deficiency of playfulness.”	stoicism
7,641	“Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.”	stoicism
7,086	“Capitalism is disgusted by those whose happiness is not a result of buying … or selling.”	stoicism
7,404	“[E]verything which went beyond our actual needs was just so much unnecessary weight, a burden to the man who had to carry it.”	stoicism
7,671	“Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates a vastly more dependable calm.”	stoicism
6,778	“A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.”	stoicism
7,543	“Some of the things we fear exist nowhere but where fear happens.”	stoicism
6,842	“Don't be overheard complaining ... not even to yourself.”	stoicism
7,128	“What is heard is pushed, but what is read is pulled, into the mind.”	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
7,185	“Show by a cheerful look that you don't need the help or comfort of others. Standing up - not propped up.”	stoicism
7,322	“[...] so läßt der, welcher der Lust nachjagt, alles andere liegen, und die Freiheit ist das erste, was er preisgibt [...]”	stoicism
7,139	“Our efforts do not owe us our desired outcomes.”	stoicism
7,485	“Tomorrow will take care of itself, so take care of today, otherwise tomorrow will take ill-care of you today – thus losing today.”	stoicism
7,033	“We always put ourselves first: the fulfilment of our desire sometimes comes last.”	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
7,459	“Christianity is not a therapy for those who wish never to be upset (177).”	stoicism
7,629	“But Moominmamma was quite unperturbed. "Well, well!" she said, "it seems to me that our guests are having a very good time." "I hope so," replied Moominpappa. "Pass me a banana, please dear.”	stoicism
7,087	“Unlearning makes learning at least three times longer than necessary.”	stoicism

7,147

“You can be too old to live, but not too young to die.”

stoicism

7,668

“The Greeks not only face facts. They have no desire to escape from them.”

stoicism

7,327

“Engineers can prove that a bumblebee, with its heavy body and little bitty wings, can't fly. But nobody tells the bumblebees ... and they fly just fine.”

stoicism

7,296

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

stoicism

6,922

“There will come a day when i will be able to resist and control my emotions... And when that day comes, i will know that i truly made it,”

stoicism

7,503

“There is no need to raise our hands to heaven; there is no need to implore the temple warden to allow us close to the ear of some graven image, as though this increased the chances of our being heard. God is near you, is with you, is inside you.”

stoicism

6,975

“The most beautiful things come from the hardest conditions.”

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

7,042

“Most people usually talk faster than they think.”

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

7,005

“Consider above all else whether you've advanced in philosophy or just in actual years.”

stoicism

7,621

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

stoicism

7,509

“You cannot attain everlasting peace of mind unless you stop seeing your mind as yourself and start seeing yourself as your mind’s guardian.”

stoicism

7,290

“Let death and exile and every other thing which appears dreadful be daily before your eyes; but most of all death: and you will never think of anything mean nor will you desire anything extravagantly.”

stoicism

7,447

“The most effective way to understand the dissonance between our thoughts about reality and reality itself, is to consider how many times we've felt like our world is ending and how many times it actually has.”

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

7,495

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

stoicism

7,270

“See? You're using the stoic glacier method." "Remind me, what's the stoic glacier method?" "It's the slow process of shaping someone's behavior by force of one's own personal stoicism.”

stoicism

6,886

“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.”

stoicism

7,155

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

stoicism

7,113

“It was for the best. So Nature had no choice but to do it.”

stoicism

7,353

“If you work at that which is before you, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing anything else to distract you, but keeping your divine part pure, as if you should be bound to give it back immediately; if you hold to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with your present activity according to nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which you utter, you will live happy. And there is no-one who is able to prevent this.”

stoicism

7,164

“If you care about yourself at all, come to your own aid while there’s still time.”

stoicism

6,833

“And why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice.”

stoicism

7,486

“Tomorrow’s worries contaminate the present.”

stoicism

7,490

“Melancholy isn't always a disorder that needs to be cured. It can be a species of intelligent grief which arises when we come face-to-face with the certainty that disappointment is written into the script from the start.”

stoicism

6,841

“[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.”

stoicism

7,558

“It takes courage to speak or react way slower than you think.”

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

7,089

“Conformity eats away individuality.”

stoicism

7,107

“We cannot but obey the powers above us. Could I rage and roar as doth the sea She lies in, yet the end must be as ’tis.”

stoicism

7,135

“We do things for others for ourselves.”

stoicism

7,264

“Najlepší spôsob obrany je nepodobať sa tým, čo nám ubližujú.”

stoicism

7,376

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

stoicism

6,935

“The only good and evil in your life lies within you – in your choices.”

stoicism

7,313

“A fool’s plans are entertainment for the wise.”

stoicism

6,780

“People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?”

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

7,498

“We have control over when, how, and where to plant a seed, not over what it will become.”

stoicism

7,570

“It is our natural and moral duty as consumers of other living things to someday die.”

stoicism

6,871

“Ought not then this robber and this adulterer to be destroyed? By no means say so, but speak rather this way: This man who has been mistaken and deceived about the most important things, and blinded, not in the faculty of vision which distinguishes white and black, but in the faculty which distinguishes good and bad, should we destroy him? If you speak thus you will see how inhuman this is which you say, and that it is just as if you would say, Ought we not destroy this blind and deaf man?”

stoicism

7,194

“Take it to mind, not to heart.”

stoicism

7,161

“People seek retreats for themselves in the countryside by the seashore, in the hills, and you too have made it your habit to long for that above all else. But this is altogether unphilosophical, when it is possible for you to retreat into yourself whenever you please; for nowhere can one retreat into greater peace or freedom from care than within one’s own soul, especially when a person has such things within him that he merely has to look at them to recover from that moment perfect ease of mind (and by ease of mind I mean nothing other than having one’s mind in good order). So constantly grant yourself this retreat and so renew yourself; but keep within you concise and basic precepts that will be enough, at first encounter, to cleanse you from all distress and to send you back without discontent to the life to which you will return.”

stoicism

7,548

“They who always expect the worst are almost always pleasantly surprised.”

stoicism

6,983

“Do not trust her seeming calm; in a moment the sea is moved to its depths.”

stoicism

7,460

“A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.”

stoicism

6,857

“Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasure-house of your soul, there are infinitely precious things that may not be taken from you.”

stoicism

7,322

“[...] so läßt der, welcher der Lust nachjagt, alles andere liegen, und die Freiheit ist das erste, was er preisgibt [...]”

stoicism

7,170

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

stoicism

7,357

“The thing whose acquisition ‘made’ you happy need not be stolen, lost, or broken for ‘it’ to make you unhappy.”

stoicism

7,658

“A properly educated leader, especially when harassed and under pressure, will know from his study of history and the classics that circumstances very much like those he is encountering have occurred from time to time on this earth since the beginning of history. He will avoid the self-indulgent error of seeing himself in a predicament so unprecedented, so unique, as to justify his making an exception to law, custom or morality in favor of himself. The making of such exceptions has been the theme of public life throughout much of our lifetimes. For twenty years, we've been surrounded by gamesmen unable to cope with the wisdom of the ages. They make exceptions to law and custom in favor of themselves because they choose to view ordinary dilemmas as unprecedented crises.”

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

7,441

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

stoicism

7,232

“A thing named, misnamed, unnamed, or renamed is still itself.”

stoicism

7,361

“Love, unless it is for life as a whole, is contaminated by things such as our preferences and memories.”

stoicism

7,079

“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”

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

6,861

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

stoicism

7,429

“Zeno is our friend but truth is an even greater friend.”

stoicism

7,442

“Running is a form of practiced stoicism. It means teaching your brain and body to be biochemically comfortable in a state of disrepair.”

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

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

7,634

“How could I admit that the All-American Girl's force field of stoicism and self-reliance and do-unto-others-and-keep-smiling wasn't working, wasn't keeping pain and shame and powerlessness away? From a young age I had learned to get over - to cover my tracks emotionally, to hide or ignore my problems in the belief that they were mine alone to solve. So when exhilarating transgressions required getting over on authority figures, I knew how to do it. I was a great bluffer. And when common, everyday survival in prison required getting over, I could do that too. This is what was approvingly described by my fellow prisoners as 'street-smarts,' as in 'You wouldn't think it to look at her, but Piper's got street-smarts.”

stoicism

6,771

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”

stoicism

6,994

“Every hour of the day, countless situations arise that call for advice, and for that advice we have to look to philosophy.”

stoicism

7,570

“It is our natural and moral duty as consumers of other living things to someday die.”

stoicism

7,514

“We lose a significant portion of our lives attending ceremonies for people who have lost theirs.”

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

6,885

“You will feel pain. You need to accept this truth. ... When it comes, accept it; embrace it. Realize it's a sensation like any other...the same as being hot or cold. Put it to one side and do what must be done. Don't let it overwhelm or control you. Ever.”

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

6,872

“Therefore we ought to exercise ourselves in small things, and beginning with them to proceed to the greater.”

stoicism

6,963

“Kindness has become so rare that it provokes perplexity about what's sincere and what's deceitful.”

stoicism

6,935

“The only good and evil in your life lies within you – in your choices.”

stoicism

7,640

“What fortune has made yours is not your own.”

stoicism

6,859

“Alles Schöne, von welcher Art es auch sein mag, ist an und für sich schön und in sich selbst vollendet. Das Lob bildet keinen Bestandteil seines Wesens, und es wird mithin durch dasselbe weder schlechter noch besser.”

stoicism

7,455

“The older you are, and the faster you walk, the crazier you look.”

stoicism

6,891

“Life will question you in its vital moments. It's up to you in how you'll respond. You might have drifted from the principles that you once followed. You could've indulged in vices or fallen into unthinking habits. It's your choice to start your practice again. Remind yourself of what's valuable and then act. You still have a choice to be brave, temperate, and wise.”

stoicism

6,912

“A good story has no end, it continues being a part of reality well after its last point by forming a union with us.”

stoicism

6,875

“These deep interactions with Greek and Roman culture, to include Stoic philosophy, certainly affected the zeitgeist of the era and most certainly impacted the educational theories in the early days of the Republic. With so much interest in reviving and adopting elements of Stoic philosophy within America, many intended references to Stoic ethics may be hidden within the works of the early generations of America, as they explicitly referenced “American” ideals that would have incorporated Stoic philosophy.”

stoicism

7,656

“So the life of a philosopher extends widely: he is not confined by the same boundary as are others. He alone is free from the laws that limit the human race, and all ages serve him as though he were a god.”

stoicism

7,197

“A child is one of the most common results of the lack or loss of self-control.”

stoicism

7,074

“Most adults make adulthood seem like a disease that is caused by a deficiency of playfulness.”

stoicism

7,641

“Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.”

stoicism

7,086

“Capitalism is disgusted by those whose happiness is not a result of buying … or selling.”

stoicism

7,404

“[E]verything which went beyond our actual needs was just so much unnecessary weight, a burden to the man who had to carry it.”

stoicism

7,671

“Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates a vastly more dependable calm.”

stoicism

6,778

“A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.”

stoicism

7,543

“Some of the things we fear exist nowhere but where fear happens.”

stoicism

6,842

“Don't be overheard complaining ... not even to yourself.”

stoicism

7,128

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

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

7,185

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

stoicism

7,322

“[...] so läßt der, welcher der Lust nachjagt, alles andere liegen, und die Freiheit ist das erste, was er preisgibt [...]”

stoicism

7,139

“Our efforts do not owe us our desired outcomes.”

stoicism

7,485

“Tomorrow will take care of itself, so take care of today, otherwise tomorrow will take ill-care of you today – thus losing today.”

stoicism

7,033

“We always put ourselves first: the fulfilment of our desire sometimes comes last.”

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

7,459

“Christianity is not a therapy for those who wish never to be upset (177).”

stoicism

7,629

“But Moominmamma was quite unperturbed. "Well, well!" she said, "it seems to me that our guests are having a very good time." "I hope so," replied Moominpappa. "Pass me a banana, please dear.”

stoicism

7,087

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

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