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“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: attitude, distress, mind-over-body, pain, stoicism

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“It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”
― Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters

tags: consicousness, dissociation, mind, stoicism, transcendence, zen

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#3

“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: pain, sadness, stoicism

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#4

“Warriors should suffer their pain silently.”
― Erin Hunter, Into the Wild

tags: erin, hunter, hurt, pain, stoicism, suffer, tigerclaw, tigerstar, warrior, warriors

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#5

“Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

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#6

“A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.”
― Taleb Nassim Nicholas

tags: stoicism

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#7

“Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.”
― Nora Roberts, Midnight Bayou

tags: empathy, passion, stoicism

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#8

“Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: stoicism

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#9

“What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.”
― Epictetus

tags: ethics, philosophy, stoicism

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#10

“There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.”
― Louise Erdrich, Tales of Burning Love

tags: emotion, stoicism

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#11

“It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

tags: stoicism

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#12

“Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions — not outside.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: stoicism

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#13

“My boyfriends have all been as stoical as queen's guards. They'd been patient, committed, and dispassionate, and I'd had to really debase myself to extract any emotion, either grin or grimace, from them.”
― Koren Zailckas, Fury: A Memoir

tags: boyfriends, ex-boyfriends, love, relationships, stoicism

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#14

“For death remembered should be like a mirror,
Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error.”
― William Shakespeare, Pericles

tags: stoicism

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#15

“When a dog is tied to a cart, if it wants to follow, it is pulled and follows, making its spontaneous act coincide with necessity. But if the dog does not follow, it will be compelled in any case. So it is with men too: even if they don't want to, they will be compelled to follow what is destined.”
― Zeno of Citium

tags: chrysippus, destiny, fate, inevitable, logos, stoicism

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#16

“Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most venial sin.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

tags: stoicism

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#17

“Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.”
― Pythagoras, The Big Book of Ancient Classics: Contains the works of Aristotle, Plato, Homer, Aeschylus...

tags: stoicism

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#18

“And why should we feel anger at the world?

As if the world would notice.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations: A New Translation

tags: marcus-aurelius, rome, stoic, stoicism

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#19

“[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.”
― Perry Anderson, Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas

tags: consolation, politics, realism, resistance-movement, silver-linings, stoicism

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#20

“It is better to be despised for simplicity than to suffer agonies from everlasting pretense.”
― Seneca, Dialogues and Letters

tags: simplicity, stoicism

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#21

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

tags: seneca, stoicism

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#22

“If it should ever happen to you to be turned to externals in order to please some person, you must know that you have lost your purpose in life.”
― Epictetus, Discourse of Epictetus: Selections

tags: philosophy, stoicism

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#23

“We cannot believe in the fundamental goodness of the world until and unless we ourself become that goodness.”
― Neel Burton

tags: ethics, problem-of-evil, stoicism

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#24

“The best way to have people laugh with you and not at you, is to get ahead of them and laugh at yourself first.”
― Nate Hamon

tags: depression, happiness, humour, inspiration, joy, laughter, life, stoicism

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#25

“There was an iron simplicty in the seer. He was like a monolith of logic standing against waves of angry nonsense.”
― John Steinbeck

tags: endurance, stoicism

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#26

“Ill Fortune is of more use to men than Good Fortune.”
― Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy

tags: bad-luck, stoicism

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#27

“Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue.”
― Zeno of Citium

tags: philosophy, stoicism

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#28

“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”
― Seneca

tags: stoicism

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#29

“We are not the first
Who with best meaning have incurred the worst.
For thee, oppressèd king, I am cast down.
Myself could else outfrown false Fortune’s frown.”
― William Shakespeare

tags: fortune, luck, stoicism

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#30

“The good and the bad occur at all times and will keep happening. We can become lost if we go with the hype of ‘good and bad’ every time.”
― Tiisetso Maloma, Introducing Ubuntu Stoicism: Gain Joy, Resilience, Productivity, and Defuse Anxiety

tags: stoicism

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