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7,130	“The best kind of pleasure comes from the indifference to pain … and pleasure.”	stoicism
7,110	“What is divine deserves our respect because it is good; what is human deserves our affection because it is like us. And our pity too, sometimes, for its inability to tell good from bad- as terrible a blindness as the kind that can't tell white from black.”	stoicism
7,539	“Feeling sorry for our bodies ought to be the closest we get to feeling sorry for ourselves.”	stoicism
7,530	“You cannot be blessed with the ability to be happy without being cursed with the ability to be unhappy.”	stoicism
7,218	“We all die having lived a full life, even those who die while they are being born.”	stoicism
7,612	“But is life really worth so much? Let us examine this; it's a different inquiry. We will offer no solace for so desolate a prison house; we will encourage no one to endure the overlordship of butchers. We shall rather show that in every kind of slavery, the road of freedom lies open. I will say to the man to whom it befell to have a king shoot arrows at his dear ones [Prexaspes], and to him whose master makes fathers banquet on their sons' guts [Harpagus]: 'What are you groaning for, fool?... Everywhere you look you find an end to your sufferings. You see that steep drop-off? It leads down to freedom. You see that ocean, that river, that well? Freedom lies at its bottom. You see that short, shriveled, bare tree? Freedom hangs from it.... You ask, what is the path to freedom? Any vein in your body.”	stoicism
7,604	“Show me a man who though sick is happy, who though in danger is happy, who though in prison is happy, and I'll show you a Stoic.”	stoicism
6,949	“We are existing in a thin sliver of light between two potentially infinite portions of darkness.”	stoicism
7,471	“Increasing the strength of our minds is the only way to reduce the difficulty of life.”	stoicism
7,176	“Pleasure and pain are often each other’s seed.”	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
6,965	“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
7,235	“Being patient with a fool requires one not to be one.”	stoicism
7,080	“Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart—”	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
7,188	“There is no correlation between how many people or things, how much money, or how many problems you have … and how grateful, happy, or peaceful you can be.”	stoicism
7,175	“Only those who are stupid mind coming across as stupid.”	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
7,111	“Don't waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people- unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful.”	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
6,870	“Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen. Is then the fruit of a fig-tree not perfected suddenly and in one hour, and would you possess the fruit of a man's mind in so short a time and so easily? Do not expect it, even if I tell you.”	stoicism
7,013	“Most of us would eventually lose count if we were to literally count our blessings.”	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
6,781	“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”	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
7,330	“We have, not problems, but negative attitudes towards some situations (towards which some people have or would have positive attitudes).”	stoicism
6,811	“If you want to make progress, put up with being perceived as ignorant or naive in worldly matters, don't aspire to a reputation for sagacity. If you do impress others as somebody, don't altogether believe it. You have to realize, it isn't easy to keep your will in agreement with nature, as well as externals. Caring about the one inevitably means you are going to shortchange the other.”	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
7,363	“Sleep is often a form of escapism.”	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
7,572	“Our inability to imagine the length of the rest of existence magnifies our problems.”	stoicism
6,927	“The crossing of a blue bridge which bystanders who cannot distinguish from the blue of the horizon deem invisible.”	stoicism
6,985	“Every life without exception is a short one.”	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
7,231	“Sunglasses are all too often used to hide shyness … or unhappiness.”	stoicism
6,903	“Imagine, if you will, a bird in flight. When it must overcome the gusts that hinder its path, it beats its wings with unyielding force. Yet, when it soars high in the sky, it spreads its wings and rides the wind, at peace in its journey. This is the model of focus we must aspire to: resolute in the face of opposition, tranquil in the embrace of flow.”	stoicism
6,836	“Submission, when it is submission to the truth — and when the truth is known to be both beautiful and merciful — has nothing in common with fatalism or stoicism as these terms are understood in the Western tradition, because its motivation is different. According to Fakhr ad-Din ar-RazT, one of the great commentators upon the Quran: The worship of the eyes is weeping, the worship of the ears is listening, the worship of the tongue is praise, the worship of the hands is giving, the worship of the body is effort, the worship of the heart is fear and hope, and the worship of the spirit is surrender and satisfaction in Allah.”	stoicism
7,617	“...we can do some historical research to see how our ancestors lived. We will quickly discover that we are living in what to them would have been a dream world that we tend to take for granted things that our ancestors had to live without...”	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
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
6,842	“Don't be overheard complaining ... not even to yourself.”	stoicism
7,168	“We gain the highest degree of freedom when we lose the desire to live, and gain the second highest degree when we lose the desire to live as long as we possibly can.”	stoicism
7,174	“No one is too old to live another day, or too young to die today.”	stoicism
7,444	“The weaker the desire to change, the further away from now is the moment from which we plan on changing.”	stoicism
7,347	“A man is as much a fool for shedding tears because he isn't going to be alive a thousand years from now.”	stoicism
7,628	“Sine philosophia nemo intrepide potest vivere, nemo secure.”	stoicism
6,899	“The act of focusing is not simply the mental equivalent of gazing intently at an object. It is a confluence, a harmonious marriage of mind, heart, and will, an alignment akin to a troupe of actors on a stage, each playing their part, but all moving in harmony towards the climax of the play. This is the essence of true focus.”	stoicism
7,235	“Being patient with a fool requires one not to be one.”	stoicism
6,975	“The most beautiful things come from the hardest conditions.”	stoicism
7,557	“It is way more pleasurable to master yourself than it is to masturbate.”	stoicism
7,537	“We are more in control of how much we know than we are of how much we have.”	stoicism
7,035	“Mindfulness is the only doorway to the unhurried life.”	stoicism
7,306	“Poverty is greatly exaggerated by sanity.”	stoicism
7,562	“Suffering adds spice to life.”	stoicism
7,022	“Most people would rather have their remarks be misunderstood than be disagreed with.”	stoicism
7,591	“We might never rid ourselves of a lingering anxiety regarding our death; this is a kind of tax we pay in return for self-awareness.”	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
6,933	“In an era characterized by incessant noise and constant distraction, we often find our minds pulled from one thought to another like a leaf in an October breeze. We are so preoccupied by modern living that we become totally disconnected from our ancient human roots in the natural world.”	stoicism
6,864	“We can’t choose what the world throws at us, but we can control how we react to it, and that makes all the difference.”	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
7,602	“The supreme ideal does not call for any external aids. It is homegrown, wholly self-developed. Once it starts looking outside itself for any part of itself it is on the way to being dominated by fortune.”	stoicism
6,879	“Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring the earth.”	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
7,591	“We might never rid ourselves of a lingering anxiety regarding our death; this is a kind of tax we pay in return for self-awareness.”	stoicism
7,007	“Draconus staggered up. 'Pearl, my friend, I have come to say goodbye. And to tell you I am sorry.' 'What saddens you?' the demon asked. 'I am sorry, Pearl, for all of this. For Dragnipur. For the horror forged by my own hands. It was fitting, was it not, that the weapon claimed its maker? I think, yes, it was. It was.' He paused, and then brought both hands up to his face. For a moment it seemed he would begin clawing his beard from the skin beneath it. Instead, the shackled hands fell away, down, dragged by the weight of the chains. 'I too am sorry,' said Pearl. 'To see the end of this.' 'What?' 'So many enemies, all here and not one by choice. Enemies, and yet working together for so long. It was a wonderous thing, was it not, Draconus? When necessity forced each hand to clasp, to work as one. A wonderous thing.' The warrior stared at the demon. He seemed unable to speak.”	stoicism
7,150	“Funerals greatly exaggerate the pleasantness of being alive, while they prevent us from thinking about the advantages of being dead.”	stoicism
7,205	“There is no correlation between the degree to which you are confident that you are right and the chances of you not being wrong.”	stoicism
7,668	“The Greeks not only face facts. They have no desire to escape from them.”	stoicism
7,252	“The most fruitful breaks are often those we are or were forced to take by life.”	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
6,794	“You should … live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.”	stoicism
7,422	“Здоровье, образование и богатство считаются «предпочтительными безразличными вещами», стоики не пропагандировали аскетизм, многие из них не чурались жизненных благ и умели наслаждаться ими. Однако эти вещи не определяют нас как уникальных индивидуумов и не имеют ничего общего с нашей личностной ценностью, а она зависит исключительно от нашего характера и наших добродетелей.”	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
7,251	“Soon you will be dead and none of it will matter”	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
7,306	“Poverty is greatly exaggerated by sanity.”	stoicism
6,848	“We are good to others only because we think that that is, or will be, good for us.”	stoicism
7,349	“The curse of mortality is the other side of the coin of the blessing of life.”	stoicism
6,942	“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
6,781	“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”	stoicism
7,569	“Life takes from us only lives we were given by it.”	stoicism
6,897	“Distractions are the relentless waves of the ocean, crashing against the shores of our consciousness. They erode our resolve, and little by little, wash away the sandcastles of our focus. They arrive in various guises: the allure of trivial pleasures, the lure of the inconsequential, the din of idle gossip, the chains of past regret and the ghostly shadows of future anxieties. Each wave seeks to pull us into the depths of irrelevance, away from the firm ground of meaningful pursuits.”	stoicism
7,377	“Hatred and love are equally enslaving.”	stoicism
6,861	“That on which you so pride yourself will be your ruin, you who think yourself to be somebody.”	stoicism
7,422	“Здоровье, образование и богатство считаются «предпочтительными безразличными вещами», стоики не пропагандировали аскетизм, многие из них не чурались жизненных благ и умели наслаждаться ими. Однако эти вещи не определяют нас как уникальных индивидуумов и не имеют ничего общего с нашей личностной ценностью, а она зависит исключительно от нашего характера и наших добродетелей.”	stoicism
7,312	“For I am not everlasting, but a human being, a part of the whole as an hour is a part of the day. Like an hour I must come, and like an hour pass away.”	stoicism
7,615	“True affluence is not needing anything.”	stoicism
7,301	“Some of the people who we think care that we hate them do not even care that there are people who love them.”	stoicism
7,427	“Но в действительности стоицизм — это не подавление или сокрытие эмоций, а их осознание, размышление об их причинах и умение направлять их себе на благо. Это понимание того, что находится под нашим контролем, а что — нет: следует сосредоточить усилия на первом, вместо того чтобы напрасно тратить их на второе.”	stoicism
7,597	“You should, I need hardly say, live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.”	stoicism
7,216	“Some people would be ashamed of driving the cars, or living in the houses, some people are showing off.”	stoicism
7,159	“Saving money, when buying an unnecessary thing, leads to wasting time, when using the thing.”	stoicism
7,441	“[P]leasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.”	stoicism
7,630	“It was as if I'd lost some cosmic game of musical chairs; the song had stopped, I was left standing, and there was simply nothing to be dine about it.”	stoicism
6,812	“In your actions, don't procrastinate. In your conversations, don't confuse. In your thoughts, don't wander. In your soul, don't be passive or aggressive. In your life, don't be all about business.”	stoicism
7,023	“Where is the harm or surprise in the ignorant behaving as the ignorant do?”	stoicism
6,899	“The act of focusing is not simply the mental equivalent of gazing intently at an object. It is a confluence, a harmonious marriage of mind, heart, and will, an alignment akin to a troupe of actors on a stage, each playing their part, but all moving in harmony towards the climax of the play. This is the essence of true focus.”	stoicism
6,829	“It is impossible to lose everything and still be alive.”	stoicism
7,432	“Growth is often the parent or the child of pain.”	stoicism
7,236	“Unhappiness and the like often inspire us to perform random acts of unkindness.”	stoicism

7,130

“The best kind of pleasure comes from the indifference to pain … and pleasure.”

stoicism

7,110

“What is divine deserves our respect because it is good; what is human deserves our affection because it is like us. And our pity too, sometimes, for its inability to tell good from bad- as terrible a blindness as the kind that can't tell white from black.”

stoicism

7,539

“Feeling sorry for our bodies ought to be the closest we get to feeling sorry for ourselves.”

stoicism

7,530

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

stoicism

7,218

“We all die having lived a full life, even those who die while they are being born.”

stoicism

7,612

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

stoicism

7,604

“Show me a man who though sick is happy, who though in danger is happy, who though in prison is happy, and I'll show you a Stoic.”

stoicism

6,949

“We are existing in a thin sliver of light between two potentially infinite portions of darkness.”

stoicism

7,471

“Increasing the strength of our minds is the only way to reduce the difficulty of life.”

stoicism

7,176

“Pleasure and pain are often each other’s seed.”

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

6,965

“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

7,235

“Being patient with a fool requires one not to be one.”

stoicism

7,080

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

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

7,188

“There is no correlation between how many people or things, how much money, or how many problems you have … and how grateful, happy, or peaceful you can be.”

stoicism

7,175

“Only those who are stupid mind coming across as stupid.”

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

7,111

“Don't waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people- unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful.”

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

6,870

“Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen. Is then the fruit of a fig-tree not perfected suddenly and in one hour, and would you possess the fruit of a man's mind in so short a time and so easily? Do not expect it, even if I tell you.”

stoicism

7,013

“Most of us would eventually lose count if we were to literally count our blessings.”

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

6,781

“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”

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

7,330

“We have, not problems, but negative attitudes towards some situations (towards which some people have or would have positive attitudes).”

stoicism

6,811

“If you want to make progress, put up with being perceived as ignorant or naive in worldly matters, don't aspire to a reputation for sagacity. If you do impress others as somebody, don't altogether believe it. You have to realize, it isn't easy to keep your will in agreement with nature, as well as externals. Caring about the one inevitably means you are going to shortchange the other.”

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

7,363

“Sleep is often a form of escapism.”

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

7,572

“Our inability to imagine the length of the rest of existence magnifies our problems.”

stoicism

6,927

“The crossing of a blue bridge which bystanders who cannot distinguish from the blue of the horizon deem invisible.”

stoicism

6,985

“Every life without exception is a short one.”

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

7,231

“Sunglasses are all too often used to hide shyness … or unhappiness.”

stoicism

6,903

“Imagine, if you will, a bird in flight. When it must overcome the gusts that hinder its path, it beats its wings with unyielding force. Yet, when it soars high in the sky, it spreads its wings and rides the wind, at peace in its journey. This is the model of focus we must aspire to: resolute in the face of opposition, tranquil in the embrace of flow.”

stoicism

6,836

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

stoicism

7,617

“...we can do some historical research to see how our ancestors lived. We will quickly discover that we are living in what to them would have been a dream world that we tend to take for granted things that our ancestors had to live without...”

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

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

6,842

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

stoicism

7,168

“We gain the highest degree of freedom when we lose the desire to live, and gain the second highest degree when we lose the desire to live as long as we possibly can.”

stoicism

7,174

“No one is too old to live another day, or too young to die today.”

stoicism

7,444

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

stoicism

7,347

“A man is as much a fool for shedding tears because he isn't going to be alive a thousand years from now.”

stoicism

7,628

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

stoicism

6,899

“The act of focusing is not simply the mental equivalent of gazing intently at an object. It is a confluence, a harmonious marriage of mind, heart, and will, an alignment akin to a troupe of actors on a stage, each playing their part, but all moving in harmony towards the climax of the play. This is the essence of true focus.”

stoicism

7,235

“Being patient with a fool requires one not to be one.”

stoicism

6,975

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

stoicism

7,557

“It is way more pleasurable to master yourself than it is to masturbate.”

stoicism

7,537

“We are more in control of how much we know than we are of how much we have.”

stoicism

7,035

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

stoicism

7,306

“Poverty is greatly exaggerated by sanity.”

stoicism

7,562

“Suffering adds spice to life.”

stoicism

7,022

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

stoicism

7,591

“We might never rid ourselves of a lingering anxiety regarding our death; this is a kind of tax we pay in return for self-awareness.”

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

6,933

“In an era characterized by incessant noise and constant distraction, we often find our minds pulled from one thought to another like a leaf in an October breeze. We are so preoccupied by modern living that we become totally disconnected from our ancient human roots in the natural world.”

stoicism

6,864

“We can’t choose what the world throws at us, but we can control how we react to it, and that makes all the difference.”

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

7,602

“The supreme ideal does not call for any external aids. It is homegrown, wholly self-developed. Once it starts looking outside itself for any part of itself it is on the way to being dominated by fortune.”

stoicism

6,879

“Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring the earth.”

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

7,591

“We might never rid ourselves of a lingering anxiety regarding our death; this is a kind of tax we pay in return for self-awareness.”

stoicism

7,007

“Draconus staggered up. 'Pearl, my friend, I have come to say goodbye. And to tell you I am sorry.' 'What saddens you?' the demon asked. 'I am sorry, Pearl, for all of this. For Dragnipur. For the horror forged by my own hands. It was fitting, was it not, that the weapon claimed its maker? I think, yes, it was. It was.' He paused, and then brought both hands up to his face. For a moment it seemed he would begin clawing his beard from the skin beneath it. Instead, the shackled hands fell away, down, dragged by the weight of the chains. 'I too am sorry,' said Pearl. 'To see the end of this.' 'What?' 'So many enemies, all here and not one by choice. Enemies, and yet working together for so long. It was a wonderous thing, was it not, Draconus? When necessity forced each hand to clasp, to work as one. A wonderous thing.' The warrior stared at the demon. He seemed unable to speak.”

stoicism

7,150

“Funerals greatly exaggerate the pleasantness of being alive, while they prevent us from thinking about the advantages of being dead.”

stoicism

7,205

“There is no correlation between the degree to which you are confident that you are right and the chances of you not being wrong.”

stoicism

7,668

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

stoicism

7,252

“The most fruitful breaks are often those we are or were forced to take by life.”

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

6,794

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

stoicism

7,422

“Здоровье, образование и богатство считаются «предпочтительными безразличными вещами», стоики не пропагандировали аскетизм, многие из них не чурались жизненных благ и умели наслаждаться ими. Однако эти вещи не определяют нас как уникальных индивидуумов и не имеют ничего общего с нашей личностной ценностью, а она зависит исключительно от нашего характера и наших добродетелей.”

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

7,251

“Soon you will be dead and none of it will matter”

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

7,306

“Poverty is greatly exaggerated by sanity.”

stoicism

6,848

“We are good to others only because we think that that is, or will be, good for us.”

stoicism

7,349

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

stoicism

6,942

“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

6,781

“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”

stoicism

7,569

“Life takes from us only lives we were given by it.”

stoicism

6,897

“Distractions are the relentless waves of the ocean, crashing against the shores of our consciousness. They erode our resolve, and little by little, wash away the sandcastles of our focus. They arrive in various guises: the allure of trivial pleasures, the lure of the inconsequential, the din of idle gossip, the chains of past regret and the ghostly shadows of future anxieties. Each wave seeks to pull us into the depths of irrelevance, away from the firm ground of meaningful pursuits.”

stoicism

7,377

“Hatred and love are equally enslaving.”

stoicism

6,861

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

stoicism

7,422

“Здоровье, образование и богатство считаются «предпочтительными безразличными вещами», стоики не пропагандировали аскетизм, многие из них не чурались жизненных благ и умели наслаждаться ими. Однако эти вещи не определяют нас как уникальных индивидуумов и не имеют ничего общего с нашей личностной ценностью, а она зависит исключительно от нашего характера и наших добродетелей.”

stoicism

7,312

“For I am not everlasting, but a human being, a part of the whole as an hour is a part of the day. Like an hour I must come, and like an hour pass away.”

stoicism

7,615

“True affluence is not needing anything.”

stoicism

7,301

“Some of the people who we think care that we hate them do not even care that there are people who love them.”

stoicism

7,427

“Но в действительности стоицизм — это не подавление или сокрытие эмоций, а их осознание, размышление об их причинах и умение направлять их себе на благо. Это понимание того, что находится под нашим контролем, а что — нет: следует сосредоточить усилия на первом, вместо того чтобы напрасно тратить их на второе.”

stoicism

7,597

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

stoicism

7,216

“Some people would be ashamed of driving the cars, or living in the houses, some people are showing off.”

stoicism

7,159

“Saving money, when buying an unnecessary thing, leads to wasting time, when using the thing.”

stoicism

7,441

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

stoicism

7,630

“It was as if I'd lost some cosmic game of musical chairs; the song had stopped, I was left standing, and there was simply nothing to be dine about it.”

stoicism

6,812

“In your actions, don't procrastinate. In your conversations, don't confuse. In your thoughts, don't wander. In your soul, don't be passive or aggressive. In your life, don't be all about business.”

stoicism

7,023

“Where is the harm or surprise in the ignorant behaving as the ignorant do?”

stoicism

6,899

“The act of focusing is not simply the mental equivalent of gazing intently at an object. It is a confluence, a harmonious marriage of mind, heart, and will, an alignment akin to a troupe of actors on a stage, each playing their part, but all moving in harmony towards the climax of the play. This is the essence of true focus.”

stoicism

6,829

“It is impossible to lose everything and still be alive.”

stoicism

7,432

“Growth is often the parent or the child of pain.”

stoicism

7,236

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

stoicism