Atharva31/Quotes_Collection · Datasets at Hugging Face

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7,338	“Perhaps I did not always love him so well as I do now. But in such cases as these, a good memory is unpardonable.”	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
7,365	“If you are pained by any external tiling, it is not this things that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now".”	stoicism
7,433	“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law. And if any instance of pain or pleasure, glory or disgrace, be set before you, remember that now is the combat, now the Olympiad comes on, nor can it be put off; and that by one failure and defeat honor may be lost or—won.”	stoicism
7,317	“Usually, that which could have been better could have been worse.”	stoicism
7,494	“Telling some people not to waste time is a waste of time.”	stoicism
7,177	“To make life very pleasurable, expect nothing. To make it even more pleasurable than that, expect nothing … but the worst.”	stoicism
7,645	“There is, I assure you, a medical art for the soul. It is philosophy, whose aid need not be sought, as in bodily diseases, from outside ourselves. We must endeavor with all our resources and all our strength to become capable of doctoring ourselves.”	stoicism
7,387	“Some people are a degree of impatience away from wishing a year were only a few weeks long.”	stoicism
7,183	“We cannot be too young to die.”	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
6,989	“Don’t take things too personally. Critique, failures, unwarranted advice - take it to mind, not to heart. What you hear out of the mouths of others are opinions and perspectives. It’s often worth listening to opinions and perspectives, but it’s not a requisite that you take them on board.”	stoicism
7,672	“It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.”	stoicism
6,932	“We should remember that even Nature's inadvertence has its own charm, its own attractiveness. Take the baking of bread. The loaf splits open here and there, and those very cracks, in one way a failure of the baker's profession, somehow catch the eye and give particular stimulus to our appetite.”	stoicism
6,989	“Don’t take things too personally. Critique, failures, unwarranted advice - take it to mind, not to heart. What you hear out of the mouths of others are opinions and perspectives. It’s often worth listening to opinions and perspectives, but it’s not a requisite that you take them on board.”	stoicism
7,039	“At the heart of stoicism lay the desire to disappoint oneself before someone else had the chance to do so. Stoicism was a crude defense against the dangers of the affections of others, dangers that would take more endurance than a life in the desert to be able to face.”	stoicism
7,401	“In order to protect ourselves we must live like doctors and be continually treating ourselves with reason.”	stoicism
7,675	“He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a stoical indifference to the fright afterward." Jefferson Davis's future wife describing him at first meeting.”	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
7,169	“The triviality of a question does not make a profound answer an impossibility.”	stoicism
6,951	“The only way to know what lies ahead is by continuing onward.”	stoicism
7,387	“Some people are a degree of impatience away from wishing a year were only a few weeks long.”	stoicism
7,498	“We have control over when, how, and where to plant a seed, not over what it will become.”	stoicism
6,974	“How does one go about persuading the rain to stop?”	stoicism
7,351	“Some people who have been sentenced for life for crimes they did not commit are usually blissful, whereas many people who can go to any part of planet earth are usually miserable.”	stoicism
7,325	“Giving in to sleep is a great opportunity to practice letting go of life.”	stoicism
7,610	“What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.”	stoicism
7,582	“The willing are led by fate, the reluctant are dragged.”	stoicism
6,997	“If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher, nor suffer others to call you so. Say rather: He is in error; for my desires, my impulses are unaltered. I give in my adhesion to what I did before; nor has my mode of dealing with the things of sense undergone any change.”	stoicism
7,465	“The mind is inclined to zoom in on your problem, or few problems, to an extend that you cannot see your many blessings.”	stoicism
7,388	“When someone wrongs you, ask yourself: What made him do it? Once you understand his concept of good and evil, you'll feel sorry for him and cease to either be amazed or angry. If his concept is similar to yours, then you will be bound to forgive him since you would have acted as he did in similar circumstances. But if you do not share his ideas of good and evil, then you should find it even easier to overlook the wrongs of someone who is confused and in a moral muddle".”	stoicism
7,365	“If you are pained by any external tiling, it is not this things that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now".”	stoicism
7,619	“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.”	stoicism
7,019	“An apology is usually a disguised request for a key to the cage of guilt or regret.”	stoicism
7,644	“When you run up against someone else’s shamelessness, ask yourself this: Is a world without shamelessness possible? No. Then don’t ask the impossible. There have to be shameless people in the world. This is one of them. The same for someone vicious or untrustworthy, or with any other defect. Remembering that the whole world class has to exist will make you more tolerant of its members.”	stoicism
7,210	“Sex for pleasure is chewing gum for genitals.”	stoicism
7,302	“Sometimes you find yourself so grateful that a prayer of yours was not answered that you pray that it be ignored. Just in case it is on the waiting list of prayers to be answered.”	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
7,459	“Christianity is not a therapy for those who wish never to be upset (177).”	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
6,839	“Il ne fait aucun doute pour moi que la sagesse est le but principal de la vie et c'est pourquoi je reviens toujours aux stoïciens. Ils ont atteint la sagesse, on ne peut donc plus les appeler des philosophes au sens propre du terme. De mon point de vue, la sagesse est le terme naturel de la philosophie, sa fin dans les deux sens du mot. Une philosophie finit en sagesse et par là même disparaît.”	stoicism
7,408	“The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.”	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
7,441	“[P]leasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.”	stoicism
7,529	“The person you are mad at for being late could be dead.”	stoicism
6,972	“Let us too overcome all things, with our reward consisting not in any wreath or garland, not in trumpet-calls for silence for the ceremonial proclamation of our name, but in moral worth, in strength of spirit, in a peace that is won for ever once in any contest fortune has been utterly defeated.”	stoicism
6,917	“Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not.”	stoicism
7,241	“We prefer ourselves into unhappiness.”	stoicism
7,424	“Resent a thing by all means if it represents an injustice decreed against yourself personally; but if this same constraint is binding on the lowest and the highest alike, then make your peace again with destiny, the destiny that unravels all ties.”	stoicism
6,968	“It is only when you fall that you learn whether you can fly.”	stoicism
7,195	“Disappointment is an unwanted—but invited—guest.”	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
7,261	“A shallow reading of a problem begets outrage; a detailed approach to a problem encourages moderation.”	stoicism
7,657	“She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.”	stoicism
7,665	“Quamquam scripsit artem rhetorieam Cleanthes, Chrysippus etiam, sed sic, ut si quis obmutescere concupierit, nihil aliud legere debeat.”	stoicism
6,911	“The reaction that art produces in you has more to do with you than it does with art.”	stoicism
7,082	“The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.”	stoicism
6,934	“The afternoon presents an intersection where the momentum that we have gained in the morning may be either sustained or lost – where we can choose to either build on the morning’s foundations and embrace our challenges, or allow the stress and frustration of the day to ruin all our hard work.”	stoicism
7,083	“Avoid talking often and excessively about your accomplishments and dangers, for however much you enjoy recounting your dangers, it's not so pleasant for others to hear about your affairs.”	stoicism
6,790	“To be everywhere is to be nowhere.”	stoicism
6,851	“Sometimes silence is a sign, not of not knowing what to say, but of knowing when to say what you know.”	stoicism
7,350	“We prefer our way into things such as regret, unhappiness, and anxiety.”	stoicism
6,900	“Yet the object of our focus is not to be chosen lightly. In the marketplace of ambitions, dreams are sold in all sizes and shapes. But true fulfillment and achievement do not lie in the mere attainment of goals, but rather in the pursuit of those that are truly worthy. A target, after all, gives direction to our arrow, but the archer’s glory lies not in merely hitting the target, but in striking one that demands skill and character.”	stoicism
7,368	“If an adult has just moved as fast as a child, from crying to laughing, then it is either the laughter is fake, or they are being tickled.”	stoicism
7,499	“There is a correlation between how foolish a man is and how tolerant he is of people who waste his time.”	stoicism
7,074	“Most adults make adulthood seem like a disease that is caused by a deficiency of playfulness.”	stoicism
7,140	“Freedom of speech does not come with opinions worth listening to.”	stoicism
7,626	“And here are two of the most immediately useful thoughts you will dip into. First that things cannot touch the mind: they are external and inert; anxieties can only come from your internal judgement. Second, hat all these things you see will change almost as you look at them, and then will be no more. Constantly bring to mind all that you yourself have already seen changed. The universe is change: life is judgement.”	stoicism
7,622	“Most of us are “living the dream” living, that is, the dream we once had for ourselves.”	stoicism
7,153	“No parent should outlive their children. To lose eight of them? So young? It staggers the mind. “Unfair” does not even come close. It’s grotesque. How easily this could shatter a person, how easily and understandably it might cause them to toss away everything they ever believed, to hate a world that could be so cruel. Yet somehow we have Marcus Aurelius”	stoicism
7,677	“He liked the English and their peculiarities. He liked their stoicism under pressure; on the wall in his factory he kept a copy of a war poster emblazoned with the Crown of King George and underneath the words “Keep Calm and Carry On.”	stoicism
7,214	“Developing the extremely rare attitude of not minding how life is happening is a billion times better than prolonging your life, even if by a trillion years.”	stoicism
7,194	“Take it to mind, not to heart.”	stoicism
6,930	“He is a slave.'' But shall that stand in his way? Show me a man who is not a slave; one is a slave to lust, another to greed, another to ambition, and all men are slaves to fear.”	stoicism
6,947	“When we first wake up our minds are clear, which makes this the opportune time to direct our focus inwards, to organize our thoughts and to set our daily intentions through a few moments of meditation. Our duties and obligations have not yet begun to crowd our schedule, and the clarity of the dawn creates an open, undistracted mental space.”	stoicism
7,398	“Our mind can be in heaven while our body is in hell. And vice versa.”	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
7,664	“In his numerous historical and Scriptural works Bauer rejects all supernatural religion, and represents Christianity as a natural product of the mingling of the Stoic and Alexandrian philosophies...”	stoicism
7,259	“Part of patience is knowing your truth and staying loyal to it; you just can’t allow your face to betray what an attack on it actually makes you feel.”	stoicism
7,096	“Just as chickens wake up and scream, being reborn is the polar opposite. You are blinded by bliss and numb to such pain.”	stoicism
7,367	“Meditation can make an hour feel slightly longer … than a sneeze.”	stoicism
7,058	“Even if you had a lot of life left to live, you would need to parcel out your time sparingly so as to have enough for necessities. As it is, with time in such short supply, what madness it is to learn things that are superfluous.”	stoicism
7,362	“The degree of our happiness is not determined by (what we regard as) the source of our happiness.”	stoicism
7,433	“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law. And if any instance of pain or pleasure, glory or disgrace, be set before you, remember that now is the combat, now the Olympiad comes on, nor can it be put off; and that by one failure and defeat honor may be lost or—won.”	stoicism
7,342	“Silence is often the wisest reply.”	stoicism
7,342	“Silence is often the wisest reply.”	stoicism
7,123	“We played the main role in the doing of some things we didn’t do, by saying they couldn’t or wouldn’t be done.”	stoicism
6,797	“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness.”	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
7,450	“We always have a choice as to, not what we hear, but what we listen to.”	stoicism
7,192	“Appreciating what you have is the best cure for wanting what you have not.”	stoicism
7,367	“Meditation can make an hour feel slightly longer … than a sneeze.”	stoicism
6,946	“As the still dawn breaks and first light graces the horizon, we humans are presented with tremendous opportunity. We are gifted with a fresh start, a blank canvas upon which we can paint however we choose.”	stoicism
7,298	“99.99% of fools deny their foolishness. The rest underestimate it.”	stoicism
7,379	“Equanimity is often mistaken for depression.”	stoicism
7,263	“Často sa dopúšťa bezprávia aj ten, kto nič nerobí, nielen ten, kto niečo robí.”	stoicism
6,967	“[A] man ought to be prepared in a manner for this also, to be able to be sufficient for himself and to be his own companion. [...] [S]o ought we also to be able to talk with ourselves, not to feel the want of others also, not to be unprovided with the means of passing our time; to observe the divine administration and the relation of ourselves to everything else; to consider how we formerly were affected toward things that happen and how at present; what are still the things which give us pain; how these also can be cured and how removed; if any things require improvement, to improve them according to reason.”	stoicism
7,379	“Equanimity is often mistaken for depression.”	stoicism
7,346	“Happiness prefers to live inside those who do not have preferences, because it never gets evicted there.”	stoicism
7,611	“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.”	stoicism

7,338

“Perhaps I did not always love him so well as I do now. But in such cases as these, a good memory is unpardonable.”

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

7,365

“If you are pained by any external tiling, it is not this things that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now".”

stoicism

7,433

“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law. And if any instance of pain or pleasure, glory or disgrace, be set before you, remember that now is the combat, now the Olympiad comes on, nor can it be put off; and that by one failure and defeat honor may be lost or—won.”

stoicism

7,317

“Usually, that which could have been better could have been worse.”

stoicism

7,494

“Telling some people not to waste time is a waste of time.”

stoicism

7,177

“To make life very pleasurable, expect nothing. To make it even more pleasurable than that, expect nothing … but the worst.”

stoicism

7,645

“There is, I assure you, a medical art for the soul. It is philosophy, whose aid need not be sought, as in bodily diseases, from outside ourselves. We must endeavor with all our resources and all our strength to become capable of doctoring ourselves.”

stoicism

7,387

“Some people are a degree of impatience away from wishing a year were only a few weeks long.”

stoicism

7,183

“We cannot be too young to die.”

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

6,989

“Don’t take things too personally. Critique, failures, unwarranted advice - take it to mind, not to heart. What you hear out of the mouths of others are opinions and perspectives. It’s often worth listening to opinions and perspectives, but it’s not a requisite that you take them on board.”

stoicism

7,672

“It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.”

stoicism

6,932

“We should remember that even Nature's inadvertence has its own charm, its own attractiveness. Take the baking of bread. The loaf splits open here and there, and those very cracks, in one way a failure of the baker's profession, somehow catch the eye and give particular stimulus to our appetite.”

stoicism

6,989

“Don’t take things too personally. Critique, failures, unwarranted advice - take it to mind, not to heart. What you hear out of the mouths of others are opinions and perspectives. It’s often worth listening to opinions and perspectives, but it’s not a requisite that you take them on board.”

stoicism

7,039

“At the heart of stoicism lay the desire to disappoint oneself before someone else had the chance to do so. Stoicism was a crude defense against the dangers of the affections of others, dangers that would take more endurance than a life in the desert to be able to face.”

stoicism

7,401

“In order to protect ourselves we must live like doctors and be continually treating ourselves with reason.”

stoicism

7,675

“He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a stoical indifference to the fright afterward." Jefferson Davis's future wife describing him at first meeting.”

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

7,169

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

stoicism

6,951

“The only way to know what lies ahead is by continuing onward.”

stoicism

7,387

“Some people are a degree of impatience away from wishing a year were only a few weeks long.”

stoicism

7,498

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

stoicism

6,974

“How does one go about persuading the rain to stop?”

stoicism

7,351

“Some people who have been sentenced for life for crimes they did not commit are usually blissful, whereas many people who can go to any part of planet earth are usually miserable.”

stoicism

7,325

“Giving in to sleep is a great opportunity to practice letting go of life.”

stoicism

7,610

“What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.”

stoicism

7,582

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

stoicism

6,997

“If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher, nor suffer others to call you so. Say rather: He is in error; for my desires, my impulses are unaltered. I give in my adhesion to what I did before; nor has my mode of dealing with the things of sense undergone any change.”

stoicism

7,465

“The mind is inclined to zoom in on your problem, or few problems, to an extend that you cannot see your many blessings.”

stoicism

7,388

“When someone wrongs you, ask yourself: What made him do it? Once you understand his concept of good and evil, you'll feel sorry for him and cease to either be amazed or angry. If his concept is similar to yours, then you will be bound to forgive him since you would have acted as he did in similar circumstances. But if you do not share his ideas of good and evil, then you should find it even easier to overlook the wrongs of someone who is confused and in a moral muddle".”

stoicism

7,365

“If you are pained by any external tiling, it is not this things that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now".”

stoicism

7,619

“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.”

stoicism

7,019

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

stoicism

7,644

“When you run up against someone else’s shamelessness, ask yourself this: Is a world without shamelessness possible? No. Then don’t ask the impossible. There have to be shameless people in the world. This is one of them. The same for someone vicious or untrustworthy, or with any other defect. Remembering that the whole world class has to exist will make you more tolerant of its members.”

stoicism

7,210

“Sex for pleasure is chewing gum for genitals.”

stoicism

7,302

“Sometimes you find yourself so grateful that a prayer of yours was not answered that you pray that it be ignored. Just in case it is on the waiting list of prayers to be answered.”

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

7,459

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

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

6,839

“Il ne fait aucun doute pour moi que la sagesse est le but principal de la vie et c'est pourquoi je reviens toujours aux stoïciens. Ils ont atteint la sagesse, on ne peut donc plus les appeler des philosophes au sens propre du terme. De mon point de vue, la sagesse est le terme naturel de la philosophie, sa fin dans les deux sens du mot. Une philosophie finit en sagesse et par là même disparaît.”

stoicism

7,408

“The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.”

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

7,441

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

stoicism

7,529

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

stoicism

6,972

“Let us too overcome all things, with our reward consisting not in any wreath or garland, not in trumpet-calls for silence for the ceremonial proclamation of our name, but in moral worth, in strength of spirit, in a peace that is won for ever once in any contest fortune has been utterly defeated.”

stoicism

6,917

“Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not.”

stoicism

7,241

“We prefer ourselves into unhappiness.”

stoicism

7,424

“Resent a thing by all means if it represents an injustice decreed against yourself personally; but if this same constraint is binding on the lowest and the highest alike, then make your peace again with destiny, the destiny that unravels all ties.”

stoicism

6,968

“It is only when you fall that you learn whether you can fly.”

stoicism

7,195

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

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

7,261

“A shallow reading of a problem begets outrage; a detailed approach to a problem encourages moderation.”

stoicism

7,657

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

stoicism

7,665

“Quamquam scripsit artem rhetorieam Cleanthes, Chrysippus etiam, sed sic, ut si quis obmutescere concupierit, nihil aliud legere debeat.”

stoicism

6,911

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

stoicism

7,082

“The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.”

stoicism

6,934

“The afternoon presents an intersection where the momentum that we have gained in the morning may be either sustained or lost – where we can choose to either build on the morning’s foundations and embrace our challenges, or allow the stress and frustration of the day to ruin all our hard work.”

stoicism

7,083

“Avoid talking often and excessively about your accomplishments and dangers, for however much you enjoy recounting your dangers, it's not so pleasant for others to hear about your affairs.”

stoicism

6,790

“To be everywhere is to be nowhere.”

stoicism

6,851

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

stoicism

7,350

“We prefer our way into things such as regret, unhappiness, and anxiety.”

stoicism

6,900

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

stoicism

7,368

“If an adult has just moved as fast as a child, from crying to laughing, then it is either the laughter is fake, or they are being tickled.”

stoicism

7,499

“There is a correlation between how foolish a man is and how tolerant he is of people who waste his time.”

stoicism

7,074

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

stoicism

7,140

“Freedom of speech does not come with opinions worth listening to.”

stoicism

7,626

“And here are two of the most immediately useful thoughts you will dip into. First that things cannot touch the mind: they are external and inert; anxieties can only come from your internal judgement. Second, hat all these things you see will change almost as you look at them, and then will be no more. Constantly bring to mind all that you yourself have already seen changed. The universe is change: life is judgement.”

stoicism

7,622

“Most of us are “living the dream” living, that is, the dream we once had for ourselves.”

stoicism

7,153

“No parent should outlive their children. To lose eight of them? So young? It staggers the mind. “Unfair” does not even come close. It’s grotesque. How easily this could shatter a person, how easily and understandably it might cause them to toss away everything they ever believed, to hate a world that could be so cruel. Yet somehow we have Marcus Aurelius”

stoicism

7,677

“He liked the English and their peculiarities. He liked their stoicism under pressure; on the wall in his factory he kept a copy of a war poster emblazoned with the Crown of King George and underneath the words “Keep Calm and Carry On.”

stoicism

7,214

“Developing the extremely rare attitude of not minding how life is happening is a billion times better than prolonging your life, even if by a trillion years.”

stoicism

7,194

“Take it to mind, not to heart.”

stoicism

6,930

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

stoicism

6,947

“When we first wake up our minds are clear, which makes this the opportune time to direct our focus inwards, to organize our thoughts and to set our daily intentions through a few moments of meditation. Our duties and obligations have not yet begun to crowd our schedule, and the clarity of the dawn creates an open, undistracted mental space.”

stoicism

7,398

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

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

7,664

“In his numerous historical and Scriptural works Bauer rejects all supernatural religion, and represents Christianity as a natural product of the mingling of the Stoic and Alexandrian philosophies...”

stoicism

7,259

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

stoicism

7,096

“Just as chickens wake up and scream, being reborn is the polar opposite. You are blinded by bliss and numb to such pain.”

stoicism

7,367

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

stoicism

7,058

“Even if you had a lot of life left to live, you would need to parcel out your time sparingly so as to have enough for necessities. As it is, with time in such short supply, what madness it is to learn things that are superfluous.”

stoicism

7,362

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

stoicism

7,433

“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law. And if any instance of pain or pleasure, glory or disgrace, be set before you, remember that now is the combat, now the Olympiad comes on, nor can it be put off; and that by one failure and defeat honor may be lost or—won.”

stoicism

7,342

“Silence is often the wisest reply.”

stoicism

7,342

“Silence is often the wisest reply.”

stoicism

7,123

“We played the main role in the doing of some things we didn’t do, by saying they couldn’t or wouldn’t be done.”

stoicism

6,797

“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness.”

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

7,450

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

stoicism

7,192

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

stoicism

7,367

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

stoicism

6,946

“As the still dawn breaks and first light graces the horizon, we humans are presented with tremendous opportunity. We are gifted with a fresh start, a blank canvas upon which we can paint however we choose.”

stoicism

7,298

“99.99% of fools deny their foolishness. The rest underestimate it.”

stoicism

7,379

“Equanimity is often mistaken for depression.”

stoicism

7,263

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

stoicism

6,967

“[A] man ought to be prepared in a manner for this also, to be able to be sufficient for himself and to be his own companion. [...] [S]o ought we also to be able to talk with ourselves, not to feel the want of others also, not to be unprovided with the means of passing our time; to observe the divine administration and the relation of ourselves to everything else; to consider how we formerly were affected toward things that happen and how at present; what are still the things which give us pain; how these also can be cured and how removed; if any things require improvement, to improve them according to reason.”

stoicism

7,379

“Equanimity is often mistaken for depression.”

stoicism

7,346

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

stoicism

7,611

“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.”

stoicism