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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
6,951	“The only way to know what lies ahead is by continuing onward.”	stoicism
6,936	“Humans are not made for sitting at a desk all day. We have been evolving for millions of years to hunt animals through dense forest and vast plains. To walk huge distances in search of water. To spend hours searching for edible fruit to bring home to our families. The sedentary lifestyle many of us lead these days is no more than a by-product of the last few centuries.”	stoicism
6,860	“The ignorant blame others for their own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise see all blame as foolishness.”	stoicism
7,483	“That you have just caught success after chasing it for many years does not mean that death will stop chasing you for at least a few seconds.”	stoicism
7,627	“The philosopher's lecture room is a 'hospital': you ought not to walk out of it in a state of pleasure, but in pain; for you are not in good condition when you arrive.”	stoicism
7,300	“Rubaiyat Revină-n glasul meu persanul vers Spre a ne aminti că timpul-i un divers Mod de-a urzi avide visuri vane, În taine risipite-n univers. Din nou să spună că țărână-i focul, Țărână-i trupul, și că asta-i jocul: Viața mea și-a ta sunt râu ce curge Necontenit și repede-n tot locul. Și că impunătorul monument Zidit cu trudă, din trufie, lent, Un vânt fugar e numai, că-n lumina Lui Dumnezeu un veac e un moment. ... Te rog, persană lună, să revii, Și voi, incerte-apusuri aurii. Azi e ieri. Nu ește decât ceilalți. Tărână-i chipul lor. Cu morții-învii.”	stoicism
6,808	“Remember to act always as if you were at a symposium. When the food or drink comes around, reach out and take some politely; if it passes you by don't try pulling it back. And if it has not reached you yet, don't let your desire run ahead of you, be patient until your turn comes. Adopt a similar attitude with regard to children, wife, wealth and status, and in time, you will be entitled to dine with the gods. Go further and decline these goods even when they are on offer and you will have a share in the gods' power as well as their company. That is how Diogenes, Heraclitus and philosophers like them came to be called, and considered, divine.”	stoicism
6,895	“Just as the sun is forever pursued by shadows, so too is our purpose chased by an unending flurry of distractions. They are the specters of our existence, conjured by the ceaseless clatter of the world, whispering tales of urgency and importance that often bear no relevance to our true path.”	stoicism
7,220	“To plan is to hope … without feeling passive.”	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
7,422	“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
7,523	“All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it.”	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
7,407	“[W]e can have the things we need for our ordinary purposes if we will only be content with what the earth has made available on its surface.”	stoicism
6,827	“he saw and recognised the visible and he sought his place in this world. He did not seek reality; his goal was not on any other side. The world was beautiful when looked at in this way - without any seeking, so simple, so childlike. The moon and stars were beautiful, the brook, the shore, the forest and rock, the goat and the golden beetle, the flower and butterfly were beautiful. It was beautiful and pleasant to go through the world like that, so childlike, so awakened, so concerned with the immediate, without any distrust.”	stoicism
7,429	“Zeno is our friend but truth is an even greater friend.”	stoicism
7,245	“Living is the outside of dying.”	stoicism
7,225	“A suicide attempt is an act of fighting for one’s death.”	stoicism
7,598	“When others inspire us, they tend to do so through the clear expression of these sketchy, adumbrated thoughts we ourselves have known but never had the perspicacity for formulate with certainty.”	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
7,130	“The best kind of pleasure comes from the indifference to pain … and pleasure.”	stoicism
6,770	“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”	stoicism
7,156	“We must say nothing, when we have nothing to say.”	stoicism
7,117	“When faced with people's bad behavior, turn around and ask when you have acted like that. When you saw money as a good, or pleasure, or social position. Your anger will subside as soon as you recognize that they acted under compulsion (what else could they do?)”	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
7,274	“Growth is often the cause or the result of pain.”	stoicism
6,960	“The part of life we really live is small. For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.”	stoicism
7,277	“A still person has the ability to stop, look at a news story or another person’s arguments, and ask objective questions without emotional overreaction or assumptions of ill intent. One is centered, rational, and respected; the other is frantic, unhappy, and intellectually stagnant. Don’t be the latter.”	stoicism
7,138	“Learning how to live would take most people at least three lifetimes.”	stoicism
7,178	“Sometimes we want not freedom of choice, but freedom from choice.”	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
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
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
6,827	“he saw and recognised the visible and he sought his place in this world. He did not seek reality; his goal was not on any other side. The world was beautiful when looked at in this way - without any seeking, so simple, so childlike. The moon and stars were beautiful, the brook, the shore, the forest and rock, the goat and the golden beetle, the flower and butterfly were beautiful. It was beautiful and pleasant to go through the world like that, so childlike, so awakened, so concerned with the immediate, without any distrust.”	stoicism
7,325	“Giving in to sleep is a great opportunity to practice letting go of life.”	stoicism
7,454	“Love me for my affection, love me even for my weakness; I am satisfied myself. I prefer my feelings to all the fine sentiments of Seneca or Epictetus.”	stoicism
7,441	“[P]leasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.”	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
7,598	“When others inspire us, they tend to do so through the clear expression of these sketchy, adumbrated thoughts we ourselves have known but never had the perspicacity for formulate with certainty.”	stoicism
7,584	“Being a stoic does not mean being a robot. Being a stoic means remaining calm both at the height of pleasure and the depths of misery.”	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
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
7,655	“The boon that could be given can be withdrawn.”	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
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
7,533	“Most people are like all stomachs: they cannot remain satisfied for a long time.”	stoicism
6,998	“Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the Sun.”	stoicism
7,445	“Destroying the seeds of disappointment requires you to unexpect the expected.”	stoicism
6,996	“Which of us does not admire what Lycurgus the Spartan did? A young citizen had put out his eye, and been handed over to him by the people to be punished at his own discretion. Lycurgus abstained from all vengeance, but on the contrary instructed and made a good man of him. Producing him in public in the theatre, he said to the astonished Spartans: "I received this young man at your hands full of violence and wanton insolence; I restore him to you in his right mind and fit to serve his country.”	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
7,301	“Some of the people who we think care that we hate them do not even care that there are people who love them.”	stoicism
7,210	“Sex for pleasure is chewing gum for genitals.”	stoicism
7,171	“A family member is initially loved out of expectation … and is eventually loved out of habit.”	stoicism
6,816	“The first and most important field of philosophy is the application of principles such as “Do not lie.” Next come the proofs, such as why we should not lie. The third field supports and articulates the proofs, by asking, for example, “How does this prove it? What exactly is a proof, what is logical inference, what is contradiction, what is truth, what is falsehood?” Thus, the third field is necessary because of the second, and the second because of the first. The most important, though, the one that should occupy most of our time, is the first. But we do just the opposite. We are preoccupied with the third field and give that all our attention, passing the first by altogether. The result is that we lie – but have no difficulty proving why we shouldn’t.”	stoicism
7,002	“Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.”	stoicism
7,074	“Most adults make adulthood seem like a disease that is caused by a deficiency of playfulness.”	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
6,912	“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
7,184	“Unless you are spiritually awakened, being happy requires you to ignore or forget other people’s suffering.”	stoicism
7,282	“Appreciating what you have is the best cure for missing what you have lost.”	stoicism
7,142	“We would rarely waste time if our existence were earned.”	stoicism
7,335	“Seeing that our birth involves the blending of these two things—the body, on the one hand, that we share with animals, and, on the other hand, rationality and intelligence, that we share with the gods—most of us incline to this former relationship, wretched and dead though it is, while only a few to the one that is divine and blessed.”	stoicism
7,655	“The boon that could be given can be withdrawn.”	stoicism
7,028	“Precision of thought comes from a tranquil mindset. A presenter can have a competitive edge if they are unmoved by the jabs and provocations that are directed at them”	stoicism
7,425	“More active and commendable still is the person who is waiting for the daylight and intercepts the first rays of the sun; shame on him who lies in bed dozing when the sun is high in the sky, whose waking hours commence in the middle of the day.”	stoicism
7,240	“The person you are mad at for being late could be late.”	stoicism
6,781	“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”	stoicism
7,099	“Some sentences take seconds to read, but take minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or even years to understand.”	stoicism
7,505	“[T]reat your inferiors in the way in which you would like to be treated by your own superiors.”	stoicism
7,553	“After failure, it is possible to keep going– and to fail better.”	stoicism
7,127	“That we can change the shadow of an object without changing the object (by changing the position of the source of light) reminds us that we can change how we feel about a situation or person by changing only how we look at it or them.”	stoicism
7,177	“To make life very pleasurable, expect nothing. To make it even more pleasurable than that, expect nothing … but the worst.”	stoicism
7,437	“Even in the longest life real living is the least portion thereof.”	stoicism
7,142	“We would rarely waste time if our existence were earned.”	stoicism
6,777	“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. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be.”	stoicism
6,891	“Life will question you in its vital moments. It's up to you in how you'll respond. You might have drifted from the principles that you once followed. You could've indulged in vices or fallen into unthinking habits. It's your choice to start your practice again. Remind yourself of what's valuable and then act. You still have a choice to be brave, temperate, and wise.”	stoicism
7,117	“When faced with people's bad behavior, turn around and ask when you have acted like that. When you saw money as a good, or pleasure, or social position. Your anger will subside as soon as you recognize that they acted under compulsion (what else could they do?)”	stoicism
7,445	“Destroying the seeds of disappointment requires you to unexpect the expected.”	stoicism
6,859	“Alles Schöne, von welcher Art es auch sein mag, ist an und für sich schön und in sich selbst vollendet. Das Lob bildet keinen Bestandteil seines Wesens, und es wird mithin durch dasselbe weder schlechter noch besser.”	stoicism
7,417	“Many are the things that have caused terror during the night and been turned into matters of laughter with the coming of daylight.”	stoicism
7,467	“It takes patience to nurture patience.”	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
6,947	“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
7,309	“We subconsciously wish that all of the things we hate but our enemies love were harmful.”	stoicism
7,501	“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
7,638	“At the bar on the Favoritenstrasse, Julius the policeman talked to us about dignity, evolution, the great Darwin and the great Nietzsche. I translated so that my good friend Ulises could understand what he was saying, although I didn’t understand any of it. The prayer of the bones, said Julius. The yearning for health. The virtue of danger. The tenacity of the forgotten. Bravo, said my good friend Ulises. Bravo, said everyone else. The limits of memory. The wisdom of plants. The eye of parasites. The agility of the earth. The merit of the soldier. The cunning of the giant. The hole of the will. Magnificent, said my good friend Ulises in German. Extraordinary.”	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 thinking this or thinking that.”	stoicism
7,509	“You cannot attain everlasting peace of mind unless you stop seeing your mind as yourself and start seeing yourself as your mind’s guardian.”	stoicism
7,473	“She looks as if she were thinking of something beyond her punishment—beyond her situation: of something not round nor before her.”	stoicism
7,271	“There was no meaning in why he was here, but he was, and that was enough.”	stoicism
6,914	“Birds weren’t given wings just to walk everywhere . . . and you weren’t born with resilience and a beautiful mind just to have an easy life.”	stoicism
6,970	“Don’t let the force of an impression when it first hits you knock you off your feet; just say to it, “Hold on a moment; let me see who you are and what you represent. Let me put you to the test.” ~ Epictetus”	stoicism
7,493	“Whereas a belief in an absurd world arises out of the fundamental disharmony of a person searching for meaning in an apparently meaninglessness universe, an existential nihilist displays impassive intellectual stoicism towards their eventual mortality while embracing a passionate artistic commitment to munity against the underlying syndrome of insignificance and confusion encasing life.”	stoicism
7,230	“To chase pleasure is to be chased by pain.”	stoicism
7,501	“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
7,521	“We need not reply or even listen to people who are talking about—not to—us.”	stoicism
7,678	“The wife of a junior officer cooped up in a horrible canvas partition in steerage for five months wrote: "I had enjoyed much peace there in the absence of every comfort, even of such as are now enjoyed in jail. I used to say that there were four privations in my situation - fire, water, earth and air. No fire to warm oneself on the coldest day, no water to drink but what was tainted, no earth to set the foot on, and scarcely any air to breathe. Yet, with all these miserable circumstances, we spent many a happy hour by candlelight in that wretched cabin whilst I sewed and he read the Bible to me.”	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
7,316	“Some people deny the existence of God in order to give themselves credit for their successes. Some accept His existence in order to deny responsibility for their failures.”	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

6,951

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

stoicism

6,936

“Humans are not made for sitting at a desk all day. We have been evolving for millions of years to hunt animals through dense forest and vast plains. To walk huge distances in search of water. To spend hours searching for edible fruit to bring home to our families. The sedentary lifestyle many of us lead these days is no more than a by-product of the last few centuries.”

stoicism

6,860

“The ignorant blame others for their own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise see all blame as foolishness.”

stoicism

7,483

“That you have just caught success after chasing it for many years does not mean that death will stop chasing you for at least a few seconds.”

stoicism

7,627

“The philosopher's lecture room is a 'hospital': you ought not to walk out of it in a state of pleasure, but in pain; for you are not in good condition when you arrive.”

stoicism

7,300

“Rubaiyat Revină-n glasul meu persanul vers Spre a ne aminti că timpul-i un divers Mod de-a urzi avide visuri vane, În taine risipite-n univers. Din nou să spună că țărână-i focul, Țărână-i trupul, și că asta-i jocul: Viața mea și-a ta sunt râu ce curge Necontenit și repede-n tot locul. Și că impunătorul monument Zidit cu trudă, din trufie, lent, Un vânt fugar e numai, că-n lumina Lui Dumnezeu un veac e un moment. ... Te rog, persană lună, să revii, Și voi, incerte-apusuri aurii. Azi e ieri. Nu ește decât ceilalți. Tărână-i chipul lor. Cu morții-învii.”

stoicism

6,808

“Remember to act always as if you were at a symposium. When the food or drink comes around, reach out and take some politely; if it passes you by don't try pulling it back. And if it has not reached you yet, don't let your desire run ahead of you, be patient until your turn comes. Adopt a similar attitude with regard to children, wife, wealth and status, and in time, you will be entitled to dine with the gods. Go further and decline these goods even when they are on offer and you will have a share in the gods' power as well as their company. That is how Diogenes, Heraclitus and philosophers like them came to be called, and considered, divine.”

stoicism

6,895

“Just as the sun is forever pursued by shadows, so too is our purpose chased by an unending flurry of distractions. They are the specters of our existence, conjured by the ceaseless clatter of the world, whispering tales of urgency and importance that often bear no relevance to our true path.”

stoicism

7,220

“To plan is to hope … without feeling passive.”

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

7,422

“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

7,523

“All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it.”

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

7,407

“[W]e can have the things we need for our ordinary purposes if we will only be content with what the earth has made available on its surface.”

stoicism

6,827

“he saw and recognised the visible and he sought his place in this world. He did not seek reality; his goal was not on any other side. The world was beautiful when looked at in this way - without any seeking, so simple, so childlike. The moon and stars were beautiful, the brook, the shore, the forest and rock, the goat and the golden beetle, the flower and butterfly were beautiful. It was beautiful and pleasant to go through the world like that, so childlike, so awakened, so concerned with the immediate, without any distrust.”

stoicism

7,429

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

stoicism

7,245

“Living is the outside of dying.”

stoicism

7,225

“A suicide attempt is an act of fighting for one’s death.”

stoicism

7,598

“When others inspire us, they tend to do so through the clear expression of these sketchy, adumbrated thoughts we ourselves have known but never had the perspicacity for formulate with certainty.”

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

7,130

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

stoicism

6,770

“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”

stoicism

7,156

“We must say nothing, when we have nothing to say.”

stoicism

7,117

“When faced with people's bad behavior, turn around and ask when you have acted like that. When you saw money as a good, or pleasure, or social position. Your anger will subside as soon as you recognize that they acted under compulsion (what else could they do?)”

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

7,274

“Growth is often the cause or the result of pain.”

stoicism

6,960

“The part of life we really live is small. For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.”

stoicism

7,277

“A still person has the ability to stop, look at a news story or another person’s arguments, and ask objective questions without emotional overreaction or assumptions of ill intent. One is centered, rational, and respected; the other is frantic, unhappy, and intellectually stagnant. Don’t be the latter.”

stoicism

7,138

“Learning how to live would take most people at least three lifetimes.”

stoicism

7,178

“Sometimes we want not freedom of choice, but freedom from choice.”

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

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

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

6,827

“he saw and recognised the visible and he sought his place in this world. He did not seek reality; his goal was not on any other side. The world was beautiful when looked at in this way - without any seeking, so simple, so childlike. The moon and stars were beautiful, the brook, the shore, the forest and rock, the goat and the golden beetle, the flower and butterfly were beautiful. It was beautiful and pleasant to go through the world like that, so childlike, so awakened, so concerned with the immediate, without any distrust.”

stoicism

7,325

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

stoicism

7,454

“Love me for my affection, love me even for my weakness; I am satisfied myself. I prefer my feelings to all the fine sentiments of Seneca or Epictetus.”

stoicism

7,441

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

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

7,598

“When others inspire us, they tend to do so through the clear expression of these sketchy, adumbrated thoughts we ourselves have known but never had the perspicacity for formulate with certainty.”

stoicism

7,584

“Being a stoic does not mean being a robot. Being a stoic means remaining calm both at the height of pleasure and the depths of misery.”

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

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

7,655

“The boon that could be given can be withdrawn.”

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

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

7,533

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

stoicism

6,998

“Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the Sun.”

stoicism

7,445

“Destroying the seeds of disappointment requires you to unexpect the expected.”

stoicism

6,996

“Which of us does not admire what Lycurgus the Spartan did? A young citizen had put out his eye, and been handed over to him by the people to be punished at his own discretion. Lycurgus abstained from all vengeance, but on the contrary instructed and made a good man of him. Producing him in public in the theatre, he said to the astonished Spartans: "I received this young man at your hands full of violence and wanton insolence; I restore him to you in his right mind and fit to serve his country.”

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

7,301

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

stoicism

7,210

“Sex for pleasure is chewing gum for genitals.”

stoicism

7,171

“A family member is initially loved out of expectation … and is eventually loved out of habit.”

stoicism

6,816

“The first and most important field of philosophy is the application of principles such as “Do not lie.” Next come the proofs, such as why we should not lie. The third field supports and articulates the proofs, by asking, for example, “How does this prove it? What exactly is a proof, what is logical inference, what is contradiction, what is truth, what is falsehood?” Thus, the third field is necessary because of the second, and the second because of the first. The most important, though, the one that should occupy most of our time, is the first. But we do just the opposite. We are preoccupied with the third field and give that all our attention, passing the first by altogether. The result is that we lie – but have no difficulty proving why we shouldn’t.”

stoicism

7,002

“Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.”

stoicism

7,074

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

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

6,912

“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

7,184

“Unless you are spiritually awakened, being happy requires you to ignore or forget other people’s suffering.”

stoicism

7,282

“Appreciating what you have is the best cure for missing what you have lost.”

stoicism

7,142

“We would rarely waste time if our existence were earned.”

stoicism

7,335

“Seeing that our birth involves the blending of these two things—the body, on the one hand, that we share with animals, and, on the other hand, rationality and intelligence, that we share with the gods—most of us incline to this former relationship, wretched and dead though it is, while only a few to the one that is divine and blessed.”

stoicism

7,655

“The boon that could be given can be withdrawn.”

stoicism

7,028

“Precision of thought comes from a tranquil mindset. A presenter can have a competitive edge if they are unmoved by the jabs and provocations that are directed at them”

stoicism

7,425

“More active and commendable still is the person who is waiting for the daylight and intercepts the first rays of the sun; shame on him who lies in bed dozing when the sun is high in the sky, whose waking hours commence in the middle of the day.”

stoicism

7,240

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

stoicism

6,781

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

stoicism

7,099

“Some sentences take seconds to read, but take minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or even years to understand.”

stoicism

7,505

“[T]reat your inferiors in the way in which you would like to be treated by your own superiors.”

stoicism

7,553

“After failure, it is possible to keep going– and to fail better.”

stoicism

7,127

“That we can change the shadow of an object without changing the object (by changing the position of the source of light) reminds us that we can change how we feel about a situation or person by changing only how we look at it or them.”

stoicism

7,177

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

stoicism

7,437

“Even in the longest life real living is the least portion thereof.”

stoicism

7,142

“We would rarely waste time if our existence were earned.”

stoicism

6,777

“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. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be.”

stoicism

6,891

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

stoicism

7,117

“When faced with people's bad behavior, turn around and ask when you have acted like that. When you saw money as a good, or pleasure, or social position. Your anger will subside as soon as you recognize that they acted under compulsion (what else could they do?)”

stoicism

7,445

“Destroying the seeds of disappointment requires you to unexpect the expected.”

stoicism

6,859

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

stoicism

7,417

“Many are the things that have caused terror during the night and been turned into matters of laughter with the coming of daylight.”

stoicism

7,467

“It takes patience to nurture patience.”

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

6,947

“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

7,309

“We subconsciously wish that all of the things we hate but our enemies love were harmful.”

stoicism

7,501

“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

7,638

“At the bar on the Favoritenstrasse, Julius the policeman talked to us about dignity, evolution, the great Darwin and the great Nietzsche. I translated so that my good friend Ulises could understand what he was saying, although I didn’t understand any of it. The prayer of the bones, said Julius. The yearning for health. The virtue of danger. The tenacity of the forgotten. Bravo, said my good friend Ulises. Bravo, said everyone else. The limits of memory. The wisdom of plants. The eye of parasites. The agility of the earth. The merit of the soldier. The cunning of the giant. The hole of the will. Magnificent, said my good friend Ulises in German. Extraordinary.”

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 thinking this or thinking that.”

stoicism

7,509

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

stoicism

7,473

“She looks as if she were thinking of something beyond her punishment—beyond her situation: of something not round nor before her.”

stoicism

7,271

“There was no meaning in why he was here, but he was, and that was enough.”

stoicism

6,914

“Birds weren’t given wings just to walk everywhere . . . and you weren’t born with resilience and a beautiful mind just to have an easy life.”

stoicism

6,970

“Don’t let the force of an impression when it first hits you knock you off your feet; just say to it, “Hold on a moment; let me see who you are and what you represent. Let me put you to the test.” ~ Epictetus”

stoicism

7,493

“Whereas a belief in an absurd world arises out of the fundamental disharmony of a person searching for meaning in an apparently meaninglessness universe, an existential nihilist displays impassive intellectual stoicism towards their eventual mortality while embracing a passionate artistic commitment to munity against the underlying syndrome of insignificance and confusion encasing life.”

stoicism

7,230

“To chase pleasure is to be chased by pain.”

stoicism

7,501

“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

7,521

“We need not reply or even listen to people who are talking about—not to—us.”

stoicism

7,678

“The wife of a junior officer cooped up in a horrible canvas partition in steerage for five months wrote: "I had enjoyed much peace there in the absence of every comfort, even of such as are now enjoyed in jail. I used to say that there were four privations in my situation - fire, water, earth and air. No fire to warm oneself on the coldest day, no water to drink but what was tainted, no earth to set the foot on, and scarcely any air to breathe. Yet, with all these miserable circumstances, we spent many a happy hour by candlelight in that wretched cabin whilst I sewed and he read the Bible to me.”

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

7,316

“Some people deny the existence of God in order to give themselves credit for their successes. Some accept His existence in order to deny responsibility for their failures.”

stoicism