Atharva31/Quotes_Collection · Datasets at Hugging Face

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7,056	“Even a poisonous snake is safe to handle in cold weather, when it is sluggish. Its venom is still there, but inactive. In the same way, there are many people whose cruelty, ambition, or self-indulgence fails to match the most outrageous cases only by the grace of fortune.”	stoicism
7,286	“Destroying your mirrors leaves your facial blemishes intact.”	stoicism
7,236	“Unhappiness and the like often inspire us to perform random acts of unkindness.”	stoicism
7,547	“Life is yet to produce someone who is loved by or important to everyone.”	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
7,411	“All vices are at odds with nature.”	stoicism
7,151	“Some real kings are drama queens.”	stoicism
7,548	“They who always expect the worst are almost always pleasantly surprised.”	stoicism
7,459	“Christianity is not a therapy for those who wish never to be upset (177).”	stoicism
7,022	“Most people would rather have their remarks be misunderstood than be disagreed with.”	stoicism
6,825	“Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.”	stoicism
7,232	“A thing named, misnamed, unnamed, or renamed is still itself.”	stoicism
7,226	“Death is freedom from life.”	stoicism
6,852	“Man, consider first what the matter is (which you propose to do), then your own nature also, what it is able to bear. If you are a wrestler, look at your shoulders, your thighs, your loins: for different men are naturally formed for different things.”	stoicism
7,674	“There was no sign of Plato, and I was told later that he had gone to live in his Republic , where he was cheerfully submitting to his own Laws . [...] None of the Stoics were present. Rumour had it that they were still clambering up the steep hill of Virtue [...]. As for the Sceptics, it appeared that they were extremely anxious to get there, but still could not quite make up their minds whether or not the island really existed.”	stoicism
6,868	“Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy; even if some obstacle arise, it is but like an intervening cloud, which floats beneath the sun but never prevails against it.”	stoicism
6,918	“You are more likely to feel an inner disturbance if you set your heart and mind on something that is beyond your control to obtain.”	stoicism
7,098	“We are food even before we are dead.”	stoicism
6,925	“Perchance some day the memory of this sorrow Will even bring delight”	stoicism
6,959	“[I]f you gape after externals, you must of necessity ramble up and down in obedience to the will of your master. And who is the master? He who has the power over the things which you seek to gain or try to avoid.”	stoicism
7,263	“Často sa dopúšťa bezprávia aj ten, kto nič nerobí, nielen ten, kto niečo robí.”	stoicism
7,652	“Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.”	stoicism
7,032	“True instruction is this:--to learn to wish that each thing should come to pass as it does. And how does it come to pass? As the Disposer has disposed it. Now He has disposed that there should be summer and winter, and plenty and dearth, and vice and virtue, and all such opposites, for the harmony of the whole.”	stoicism
6,849	“If you are told that such an one speaks ill of you, make no defence against what was said, but answer, He surely knew not my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these only!”	stoicism
7,169	“The triviality of a question does not make a profound answer an impossibility.”	stoicism
7,533	“Most people are like all stomachs: they cannot remain satisfied for a long time.”	stoicism
7,378	“A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.”	stoicism
7,029	“Man, if you are anything, both walk alone and talk to yourself, and do not hide yourself in the chorus. Examine a little at last, look around, stir yourself up, that you may know who you are.”	stoicism
7,541	“As things are, there is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she didn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.”	stoicism
7,384	“why should I demand from fortune that she should give me this and that rather than demand from myself that I should not ask for them? why should I ask for them, after all? am I to pile them up in total forgetfulness of the frailty of human existence?”	stoicism
7,321	“A true believer in God prays only to thank, never to ask; and welcomes, with open arms, every single thing that is happening.”	stoicism
7,554	“Just as I prepared to stand and bow, a woman appeared with a miniature coffee cup in her hand. She offered it to me. As I took it, I noticed two things: Bugs crawling on the ground and the men approving of me by snapping their fingers. I bowed and took a sip of the coffee and almost fainted. I had a cockroach on my tongue. I looked at the peoples' faces and I could not spit it out. My grandmother would have pushed away the grave's dirt and traveled by willpower to show me her face of abject disappointment. I could not bear that. I opened my throat and drank the cup dry. I counted four cockroaches.”	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
7,128	“What is heard is pushed, but what is read is pulled, into the mind.”	stoicism
7,149	“You cannot love what you have become, yet hate what you have overcome.”	stoicism
7,589	“That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.”	stoicism
6,990	“Success is not a stamp of approval given by others.”	stoicism
7,589	“That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.”	stoicism
7,189	“To complain about life is to complain about being alive.”	stoicism
6,893	“The world might rage around, yet within the Stoic’s mind, a tranquil sea prevails. The Stoic remains anchored, not carried away by the torrents of distraction, but rather cultivating a steadfast presence in each fleeting moment. In this ever-passing instant, the Stoic exercises his virtue, sharpens his wisdom, and wields his actions.”	stoicism
7,191	“Time and money are almost always saved to be wasted.”	stoicism
7,000	“Will you never come to a realisation of who you are, what you have been born for and the purpose for which the gift of vision was made in our case?”	stoicism
7,459	“Christianity is not a therapy for those who wish never to be upset (177).”	stoicism
6,832	“Maximum remedium est irae mora.”	stoicism
7,254	“Remind yourself that what you love is mortal … at the very moment you are taking joy in something, present yourself with the opposite impressions. What harm is it, just when you are kissing your little child, to say: Tomorrow you will die, or to your friend similarly: Tomorrow one of us will go away, and we shall not see one another any more?”	stoicism
7,397	“The most common act of violence is the relentless mental violence we perpetrate upon ourselves with nothing other than our thoughts.”	stoicism
7,472	“Not even once has life or the weather complained about a human being.”	stoicism
7,343	“Soon earth will cover us all. Then in time earth, too, will change; later, what issues from this change will itself in turn incessantly change, and so again will all that then takes its place, even unto the world's end. to let the mind dwell on these swiftly rolling billows of change and transformation is to know a contempt for all things mortal.”	stoicism
7,537	“We are more in control of how much we know than we are of how much we have.”	stoicism
7,252	“The most fruitful breaks are often those we are or were forced to take by life.”	stoicism
7,288	“You are indeed a man of sorrows and have suffered much...pray be seated now, here on this chair, and let us leave our sorrows, bitter though they are, locked up in our own hearts, for weeping is cold comfort and does little good.”	stoicism
6,924	“It matters not how long the action is spun out, but how good the acting is”	stoicism
6,861	“That on which you so pride yourself will be your ruin, you who think yourself to be somebody.”	stoicism
7,295	“When you are alone, you should call this tranquility and freedom and when you are with many you shouldn’t call this a crowd, or trouble or uneasiness but festival and company and contentedly accept it.”	stoicism
7,224	“It is impossible to separate the art of living from the art of dying, because to be living is to be dying.”	stoicism
7,510	“Each man has a character of his own choosing; it is chance or fate that decides his choice of job.”	stoicism
7,367	“Meditation can make an hour feel slightly longer … than a sneeze.”	stoicism
7,414	“[W]hatever happens is never as serious as rumour makes it out to be.”	stoicism
7,279	“A surprising number of people believe that other people can hurt their feelings.”	stoicism
6,952	“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”	stoicism
7,155	“We each unwittingly contribute, each and every day, to the preventions and to the causes of millions of accidents.”	stoicism
7,343	“Soon earth will cover us all. Then in time earth, too, will change; later, what issues from this change will itself in turn incessantly change, and so again will all that then takes its place, even unto the world's end. to let the mind dwell on these swiftly rolling billows of change and transformation is to know a contempt for all things mortal.”	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
7,174	“No one is too old to live another day, or too young to die today.”	stoicism
7,015	“It is inevitable that life will be not just very short but very miserable for those who acquire by great toil what they must keep by greater toil. They achieve what they want laboriously; they possess what they have achieved anxiously; and meanwhile they take no account of time that will never more return. New preoccupations take the place of the old, hope excites more hope and ambition more ambition. They do not look for an end to their misery, but simply change the reason for it.”	stoicism
7,511	“The pursuit of happiness is one of the most common symptoms of intellectual immaturity.”	stoicism
7,360	“We are all capable of laughing at what is meant or expected to make us unhappy or angry.”	stoicism
7,430	“The bigger the family, the bigger the number of corpses it owes life.”	stoicism
7,419	“Let me indicate here how men can prove that their words are their own: let them put their preaching into practice”	stoicism
7,240	“The person you are mad at for being late could be late.”	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
7,657	“She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.”	stoicism
7,192	“Appreciating what you have is the best cure for wanting what you have not.”	stoicism
7,670	“Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread. In these out-of-control moments, we bulldoze through the best possible outcomes for our lives, only to return to the scene of the crime later to cry over spilt milk.”	stoicism
6,834	“Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life.”	stoicism
6,782	“Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.”	stoicism
6,982	“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waist a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficient generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death's final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we know it was passing”	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
7,262	“Life is a pilgrimage and a struggle. All we have of time is a moment; the universe is in constant flux; our bodies are fragile; our senses grasp so little; our souls are a mist; the future is a fog; and fame is fleeting.”	stoicism
6,982	“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waist a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficient generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death's final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we know it was passing”	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
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
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
7,441	“[P]leasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.”	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
7,234	“Life sometimes shows kindheartedness by not handing us the success or fame we want, until we have matured enough to be able to handle it.”	stoicism
7,266	“Halleck came from people who regarded a slight change of facial expression as adequate to convey the pain of a severed limb.”	stoicism
7,469	“What are virtues, if not practiced evenly in both times of joy and in hardships?”	stoicism
7,164	“If you care about yourself at all, come to your own aid while there’s still time.”	stoicism
7,472	“Not even once has life or the weather complained about a human being.”	stoicism
7,077	“We cannot really save time. We can merely avoid wasting it.”	stoicism
7,537	“We are more in control of how much we know than we are of how much we have.”	stoicism
6,952	“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”	stoicism
7,398	“Our mind can be in heaven while our body is in hell. And vice versa.”	stoicism
7,563	“The fact that our minds are problem-solving machines says a lot about the nature of life.”	stoicism
7,279	“A surprising number of people believe that other people can hurt their feelings.”	stoicism
7,477	“A man whose mind has completely left childhood behind would not be surprised if he were to walk in on his wife having sex with her father … or with his mother.”	stoicism
7,315	“It is humbling to realize that what you hate (the most) about someone is actually what they love (the most) about themselves.”	stoicism
7,333	“An emotion is a mild mental illness.”	stoicism
7,393	“We cannot have, but can lose, everything.”	stoicism

7,056

“Even a poisonous snake is safe to handle in cold weather, when it is sluggish. Its venom is still there, but inactive. In the same way, there are many people whose cruelty, ambition, or self-indulgence fails to match the most outrageous cases only by the grace of fortune.”

stoicism

7,286

“Destroying your mirrors leaves your facial blemishes intact.”

stoicism

7,236

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

stoicism

7,547

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

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

7,411

“All vices are at odds with nature.”

stoicism

7,151

“Some real kings are drama queens.”

stoicism

7,548

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

stoicism

7,459

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

stoicism

7,022

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

stoicism

6,825

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

stoicism

7,232

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

stoicism

7,226

“Death is freedom from life.”

stoicism

6,852

“Man, consider first what the matter is (which you propose to do), then your own nature also, what it is able to bear. If you are a wrestler, look at your shoulders, your thighs, your loins: for different men are naturally formed for different things.”

stoicism

7,674

“There was no sign of Plato, and I was told later that he had gone to live in his Republic , where he was cheerfully submitting to his own Laws . [...] None of the Stoics were present. Rumour had it that they were still clambering up the steep hill of Virtue [...]. As for the Sceptics, it appeared that they were extremely anxious to get there, but still could not quite make up their minds whether or not the island really existed.”

stoicism

6,868

“Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy; even if some obstacle arise, it is but like an intervening cloud, which floats beneath the sun but never prevails against it.”

stoicism

6,918

“You are more likely to feel an inner disturbance if you set your heart and mind on something that is beyond your control to obtain.”

stoicism

7,098

“We are food even before we are dead.”

stoicism

6,925

“Perchance some day the memory of this sorrow Will even bring delight”

stoicism

6,959

“[I]f you gape after externals, you must of necessity ramble up and down in obedience to the will of your master. And who is the master? He who has the power over the things which you seek to gain or try to avoid.”

stoicism

7,263

“Často sa dopúšťa bezprávia aj ten, kto nič nerobí, nielen ten, kto niečo robí.”

stoicism

7,652

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

stoicism

7,032

“True instruction is this:--to learn to wish that each thing should come to pass as it does. And how does it come to pass? As the Disposer has disposed it. Now He has disposed that there should be summer and winter, and plenty and dearth, and vice and virtue, and all such opposites, for the harmony of the whole.”

stoicism

6,849

“If you are told that such an one speaks ill of you, make no defence against what was said, but answer, He surely knew not my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these only!”

stoicism

7,169

“The triviality of a question does not make a profound answer an impossibility.”

stoicism

7,533

“Most people are like all stomachs: they cannot remain satisfied for a long time.”

stoicism

7,378

“A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.”

stoicism

7,029

“Man, if you are anything, both walk alone and talk to yourself, and do not hide yourself in the chorus. Examine a little at last, look around, stir yourself up, that you may know who you are.”

stoicism

7,541

“As things are, there is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she didn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.”

stoicism

7,384

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

stoicism

7,321

“A true believer in God prays only to thank, never to ask; and welcomes, with open arms, every single thing that is happening.”

stoicism

7,554

“Just as I prepared to stand and bow, a woman appeared with a miniature coffee cup in her hand. She offered it to me. As I took it, I noticed two things: Bugs crawling on the ground and the men approving of me by snapping their fingers. I bowed and took a sip of the coffee and almost fainted. I had a cockroach on my tongue. I looked at the peoples' faces and I could not spit it out. My grandmother would have pushed away the grave's dirt and traveled by willpower to show me her face of abject disappointment. I could not bear that. I opened my throat and drank the cup dry. I counted four cockroaches.”

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

7,128

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

stoicism

7,149

“You cannot love what you have become, yet hate what you have overcome.”

stoicism

7,589

“That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.”

stoicism

6,990

“Success is not a stamp of approval given by others.”

stoicism

7,589

“That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.”

stoicism

7,189

“To complain about life is to complain about being alive.”

stoicism

6,893

“The world might rage around, yet within the Stoic’s mind, a tranquil sea prevails. The Stoic remains anchored, not carried away by the torrents of distraction, but rather cultivating a steadfast presence in each fleeting moment. In this ever-passing instant, the Stoic exercises his virtue, sharpens his wisdom, and wields his actions.”

stoicism

7,191

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

stoicism

7,000

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

stoicism

7,459

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

stoicism

6,832

“Maximum remedium est irae mora.”

stoicism

7,254

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

stoicism

7,397

“The most common act of violence is the relentless mental violence we perpetrate upon ourselves with nothing other than our thoughts.”

stoicism

7,472

“Not even once has life or the weather complained about a human being.”

stoicism

7,343

“Soon earth will cover us all. Then in time earth, too, will change; later, what issues from this change will itself in turn incessantly change, and so again will all that then takes its place, even unto the world's end. to let the mind dwell on these swiftly rolling billows of change and transformation is to know a contempt for all things mortal.”

stoicism

7,537

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

stoicism

7,252

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

stoicism

7,288

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

stoicism

6,924

“It matters not how long the action is spun out, but how good the acting is”

stoicism

6,861

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

stoicism

7,295

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

stoicism

7,224

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

stoicism

7,510

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

stoicism

7,367

“Meditation can make an hour feel slightly longer … than a sneeze.”

stoicism

7,414

“[W]hatever happens is never as serious as rumour makes it out to be.”

stoicism

7,279

“A surprising number of people believe that other people can hurt their feelings.”

stoicism

6,952

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

stoicism

7,155

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

stoicism

7,343

“Soon earth will cover us all. Then in time earth, too, will change; later, what issues from this change will itself in turn incessantly change, and so again will all that then takes its place, even unto the world's end. to let the mind dwell on these swiftly rolling billows of change and transformation is to know a contempt for all things mortal.”

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

7,174

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

stoicism

7,015

“It is inevitable that life will be not just very short but very miserable for those who acquire by great toil what they must keep by greater toil. They achieve what they want laboriously; they possess what they have achieved anxiously; and meanwhile they take no account of time that will never more return. New preoccupations take the place of the old, hope excites more hope and ambition more ambition. They do not look for an end to their misery, but simply change the reason for it.”

stoicism

7,511

“The pursuit of happiness is one of the most common symptoms of intellectual immaturity.”

stoicism

7,360

“We are all capable of laughing at what is meant or expected to make us unhappy or angry.”

stoicism

7,430

“The bigger the family, the bigger the number of corpses it owes life.”

stoicism

7,419

“Let me indicate here how men can prove that their words are their own: let them put their preaching into practice”

stoicism

7,240

“The person you are mad at for being late could be late.”

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

7,657

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

stoicism

7,192

“Appreciating what you have is the best cure for wanting what you have not.”

stoicism

7,670

“Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread. In these out-of-control moments, we bulldoze through the best possible outcomes for our lives, only to return to the scene of the crime later to cry over spilt milk.”

stoicism

6,834

“Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life.”

stoicism

6,782

“Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.”

stoicism

6,982

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waist a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficient generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death's final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we know it was passing”

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

7,262

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

stoicism

6,982

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waist a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficient generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death's final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we know it was passing”

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

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

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

7,441

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

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

7,234

“Life sometimes shows kindheartedness by not handing us the success or fame we want, until we have matured enough to be able to handle it.”

stoicism

7,266

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

stoicism

7,469

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

stoicism

7,164

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

stoicism

7,472

“Not even once has life or the weather complained about a human being.”

stoicism

7,077

“We cannot really save time. We can merely avoid wasting it.”

stoicism

7,537

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

stoicism

6,952

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

stoicism

7,398

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

stoicism

7,563

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

stoicism

7,279

“A surprising number of people believe that other people can hurt their feelings.”

stoicism

7,477

“A man whose mind has completely left childhood behind would not be surprised if he were to walk in on his wife having sex with her father … or with his mother.”

stoicism

7,315

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

stoicism

7,333

“An emotion is a mild mental illness.”

stoicism

7,393

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

stoicism