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7,236 | “Unhappiness and the like often inspire us to perform random acts of unkindness.” | stoicism |
7,149 | “You cannot love what you have become, yet hate what you have overcome.” | stoicism |
7,131 | “Our education system would be betraying its master, capitalism, if it taught us to be content with what we have. Or if it told us about the fruits of practicing minimalism.” | stoicism |
7,218 | “We all die having lived a full life, even those who die while they are being born.” | stoicism |
7,210 | “Sex for pleasure is chewing gum for genitals.” | stoicism |
6,862 | “Well, and it is not my fault if I have not loved as one loves a concubine, since men do not.” | stoicism |
7,390 | “Sometimes we are lucky to lose something or someone.” | stoicism |
7,522 | “Every habit and faculty is confirmed and strengthened by the corresponding actions, that of walking by walking, that of running by running. If you wish to be a good reader, read; if you wish to be a good writer, write. If you should give up reading for thirty days one after the other, and be engaged in something else,... | stoicism |
7,636 | “All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.” | stoicism |
7,193 | “Our caring about what others think about us is one of the pillars of the economy.” | stoicism |
6,911 | “The reaction that art produces in you has more to do with you than it does with art.” | stoicism |
7,060 | “We are all talented at coming up with plausible excuses.” | stoicism |
7,201 | “The vast majority of people are each a puppet that is forever pulled in this or that direction, or pushed into this or that action, by things such as public opinion and an emotion.” | stoicism |
7,518 | “We can always choose not what we see but how we look at what we see.” | stoicism |
7,621 | “It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the one who hankers after more.” | stoicism |
7,593 | “[I]ndulge the body just so far as suffices for good health. It needs to be treated somewhat strictly to prevent it from being disobedient to the spirit. Your food should appease your hunger, your drink quench your thirst, your clothing keep out the cold, your house be a protection against inclement weather.” | stoicism |
7,458 | “We must become friends of despair if we are to be drawn above it to genuine and heartfelt hope. Far from being an exercise in morbidity or arrogance, a deepening acquaintance with our death and with the vanity of human wishes is our worldly hearts a needed path to perfect health (61).” | 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 зависи... | stoicism |
7,470 | “I’ve let people’s opinions, my own self judgements and many negative things take this life away from me. No more!” | stoicism |
6,818 | “40. The gods either have power or they have not. If they have not, why pray to them? If they have, then instead of praying to be granted or spared such-and-such a thing, why not rather pray to be delivered from dreading it, or lusting for it, or grieving over it? Clearly, if they can help a man at all, they can help h... | stoicism |
7,071 | “We suffer more in imagination than in reality.” | stoicism |
7,650 | “And here lies the essential difference between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility, not the excitable cheer that positive thinkers usually seem to mean when they use the word, 'happiness.' And tranquility was to be achieved not by strenuously chasing ... | 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 |
6,905 | “Nie należy się gniewać na bieg wypadków. Nic ich to bowiem nie obchodzi.” | stoicism |
7,324 | “Some things do not make sense, not in themselves, but to some people.” | stoicism |
7,173 | “Stoicism is a mild form of pessimism … sprinkled with optimism.” | stoicism |
7,661 | “[Philosophers] have come to envy the philologist and the mathematician, and they have taken over all the inessential elements in those studies—with the result that they know more about devoting care and attention to their speech than about devoting such attention to their lives.” | stoicism |
7,634 | “How could I admit that the All-American Girl's force field of stoicism and self-reliance and do-unto-others-and-keep-smiling wasn't working, wasn't keeping pain and shame and powerlessness away? From a young age I had learned to get over - to cover my tracks emotionally, to hide or ignore my problems in the belief th... | stoicism |
7,371 | “People often give us a piece of their mind with the intention to take away our peace of mind.” | stoicism |
7,576 | “Not having expected an event makes it seem way better or worse than it really is.” | 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 |
7,526 | “The happiest people are not those who have the most, but those who are the most grateful for what they have.” | stoicism |
7,473 | “She looks as if she were thinking of something beyond her punishment—beyond her situation: of something not round nor before her.” | stoicism |
7,087 | “Unlearning makes learning at least three times longer than necessary.” | stoicism |
7,387 | “Some people are a degree of impatience away from wishing a year were only a few weeks long.” | stoicism |
7,132 | “We do not need to lose people or things to appreciate them.” | 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 |
7,151 | “Some real kings are drama queens.” | stoicism |
7,002 | “Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.” | stoicism |
7,546 | “Even the busiest bee does not move from one flower to another as often as an untamed mind moves from one thought to another.” | stoicism |
7,113 | “It was for the best. So Nature had no choice but to do it.” | stoicism |
7,318 | “Some people get killed by water. Some die from dehydration.” | stoicism |
7,586 | “Everything worthwhile in your life draws its meaning from the fact you will die.” | stoicism |
7,322 | “[...] so läßt der, welcher der Lust nachjagt, alles andere liegen, und die Freiheit ist das erste, was er preisgibt [...]” | stoicism |
7,298 | “99.99% of fools deny their foolishness. The rest underestimate it.” | stoicism |
7,625 | “These...xistential qualms you suffer, they just mean you're truly human. I aked how I might remedy them. "You don´t remedy them. You live thru them.” | stoicism |
7,558 | “It takes courage to speak or react way slower than you think.” | stoicism |
7,588 | “In the evening I came home and read about the Messina earthquake, and how the relief ships arrived, and the wretched survivors crowded down to the water's edge and tore each other like wild beasts in their rage of hunger. The paper set forth, in horrified language, that some of them had been seventy-two hours without ... | stoicism |
7,340 | “Heartless’ is a label that is all too often wrongly given to someone who is rational by someone who is emotional.” | stoicism |
6,952 | “True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.” | stoicism |
6,810 | “You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts, so that if someone says, "What are your thinking about?" you can respond at once (and truthfully) that you are thin... | stoicism |
7,320 | “Education almost always leaves stupidity intact.” | stoicism |
7,166 | “You cannot really not care about what others think about you, yet care about whether or not they know that you do not care about what they think about you.” | stoicism |
7,473 | “She looks as if she were thinking of something beyond her punishment—beyond her situation: of something not round nor before her.” | stoicism |
7,548 | “They who always expect the worst are almost always pleasantly surprised.” | stoicism |
7,263 | “Často sa dopúšťa bezprávia aj ten, kto nič nerobí, nielen ten, kto niečo robí.” | stoicism |
7,428 | “Стоик стремится к добродетели, совершенству и живет по принципу: «Делать все настолько хорошо, насколько это возможно», он осознает моральный аспект всех своих действий.” | stoicism |
7,676 | “Indeed this gentleman's stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exemplary fortitude the afflictions of his friends, but renders him, by way of counterpoise, rather selfish and sensitive in respect of any that happen to befall himself.” | stoicism |
7,102 | “There is a limit to the time assigned to you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and will never return.” | stoicism |
6,896 | “Distractions adorn themselves in the grandeur of the immediate, urgent, and superficial, dazzling our senses and demanding our attention. They leap into the spotlight, shouting loudly to drown the quiet callings of our deepest intentions.” | stoicism |
7,327 | “Engineers can prove that a bumblebee, with its heavy body and little bitty wings, can't fly. But nobody tells the bumblebees ... and they fly just fine.” | stoicism |
7,326 | “What some people regard as an expression of freedom is actually that of slavery.” | stoicism |
6,770 | “Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.” | stoicism |
6,937 | “Our minds are a sanctuary; a safe haven which is totally impregnable to the outside world. It is only when we allow external problems and anxieties to enter our mind that this sanctuary becomes vulnerable.” | stoicism |
7,389 | “How was your day?’ ought to be ‘How did you look at your day?” | stoicism |
6,788 | “Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.” | stoicism |
7,101 | “That kindness is invincible, provided it's sincere- not ironic or an act. What can even the most vicious person do if you keep treating him with kindness and gently set him straight” | stoicism |
7,353 | “If you work at that which is before you, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing anything else to distract you, but keeping your divine part pure, as if you should be bound to give it back immediately; if you hold to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with your prese... | stoicism |
7,225 | “A suicide attempt is an act of fighting for one’s death.” | stoicism |
6,878 | “An open eye in the dark, will find light...” | stoicism |
7,037 | “I encouraged them to bear up against all evils, and if we must perish, to die in our own cause, and not weakly distrust the providence of the Almighty, by giving ourselves up to despair. I reasoned with them, and told them that we would not die sooner by keeping up our hopes; that the dreadful sacrifices and privation... | 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 |
7,009 | “Everything that we see is changing and will soon be gone, and we should bear in mind how many things have already changed over time, like the waters of streams flowing ceaselessly past—an idea that we can call the contemplation of impermanence.” | stoicism |
7,070 | “If one accomplishes some good though with toil, the toil passes, but the good remains; if one does something dishonourable with pleasure, the pleasure passes, but the dishonour remains.” | stoicism |
7,371 | “People often give us a piece of their mind with the intention to take away our peace of mind.” | stoicism |
6,872 | “Therefore we ought to exercise ourselves in small things, and beginning with them to proceed to the greater.” | stoicism |
7,019 | “An apology is usually a disguised request for a key to the cage of guilt or regret.” | stoicism |
7,222 | “It takes selfishness to stop someone from killing themself.” | stoicism |
7,289 | “...but if you think that only which is your own to be your own, and if you think that what is another’s, as it really is, belongs to another, no man will ever compel you, no man will hinder you, you will never blame any man, you will accuse no man, you will do nothing involuntarily (against your will), no man will har... | stoicism |
6,922 | “There will come a day when i will be able to resist and control my emotions... And when that day comes, i will know that i truly made it,” | stoicism |
7,628 | “Sine philosophia nemo intrepide potest vivere, nemo secure.” | stoicism |
6,943 | “Time is a river, a violent current of events, glimpsed once and already carried past us, and another one follows and is gone.” | stoicism |
7,112 | “Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see.” | 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 |
7,200 | “No, it is events that give rise to fear -- when another has the power over them or can prevent them, that person becomes able to inspire fear. How is the fortress destroyed? Not by iron or fire, but by judgments... here is where we must begin, and it is from this front that we must seize the fortress and throw out tyr... | stoicism |
7,496 | “Men are of little worth. Their brief lives last a single day. They cannot hold elusive pleasure fast; It melts away. All laurels wither; all illusions fade; Hopes have been phantoms, shade on air-built shade, since time began.” | stoicism |
7,458 | “We must become friends of despair if we are to be drawn above it to genuine and heartfelt hope. Far from being an exercise in morbidity or arrogance, a deepening acquaintance with our death and with the vanity of human wishes is our worldly hearts a needed path to perfect health (61).” | stoicism |
7,456 | “It's with a heavy heart that I assure you that regardless of how lasting your fortune feels, it can be taken from you before you can even think to try to hold on.” | stoicism |
7,621 | “It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the one who hankers after more.” | 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 |
7,427 | “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 |
7,093 | “Our rationality is a visitor.” | stoicism |
7,442 | “Running is a form of practiced stoicism. It means teaching your brain and body to be biochemically comfortable in a state of disrepair.” | stoicism |
7,408 | “The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.” | stoicism |
7,189 | “To complain about life is to complain about being alive.” | stoicism |
7,363 | “Sleep is often a form of escapism.” | 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 ... | stoicism |
7,428 | “Стоик стремится к добродетели, совершенству и живет по принципу: «Делать все настолько хорошо, насколько это возможно», он осознает моральный аспект всех своих действий.” | stoicism |
7,520 | “Killing a person does not lead to nearly as much pain as creating a human being.” | stoicism |
7,181 | “Being spiritually asleep has deceived the vast majority of people into thinking that poverty is a poor person’s main problem in life. To those who are spiritually awake, poverty is not even a problem.” | stoicism |
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