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“You are scared of dying - and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“Do not trust her seeming calm; in a moment the sea is moved to its depths.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“Retire into yourself as much as you can. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“Those who courageously choose to confront extreme hardships perceive their experience differently than others. They have the ability to envision something beyond the difficulties they encounter. Perhaps a glimmer of hope? Or perhaps another form of adversity? The truth is that the only way to know what lies ahead is by continuing onward.”
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“[...] Say good-bye at last to those deceptive prizes more precious to those who hope for them than to those who have won them.”
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“If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people's opinions, you will never be rich.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“You have buried someone you loved. Now look for someone to love. It is better to make good the loss of a friend than to cry over him.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“I am acting on behalf of later generations. I am writing down a few things that may be of use to them.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“Every hour of the day, countless situations arise that call for advice, and for that advice we have to look to philosophy.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“While other people are snatched away from us, we are being filched away surreptitiously from ourselves.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“Having in mind not how bravely I was capable of dying but how far from bravely he was capable of bearing the loss, I commanded myself to live.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." - Meditations”
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“We need to set our affections on some good man and keep him constantly before our eyes, so that we may live as if he were watching us and do everything as if he saw what we were doing.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“We who are recovering from a prolonged spiritual sickness are in the same condition as invalids who have been affected to such an extent by prolonged indisposition that they cannot once be taken out of doors without ill effects.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“Having in mind not how bravely I was capable of dying but how far from bravely he was capable of bearing the loss, I commanded myself to live. There are times when even to live is an act of bravery.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“Kindness has become so rare that it provokes perplexity about what's sincere and what's deceitful.”
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“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.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“No action in the human context will succeed without reference to the divine, nor vice versa.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“I would not venture as yet to assure you, or even to hope, that there is nothing left in me needing to be changed.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“A person who starts being friends with you because it pays him will similarly cease to be friends because it pays him to do so.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.” ~ Epictetus”
― STOICISM: The Simplistic Timeless Stoic Art of Better Living with Ancient Wisdom
― STOICISM: The Simplistic Timeless Stoic Art of Better Living with Ancient Wisdom
“In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choice I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.” ~Epictetus”
― STOICISM: The Simplistic Timeless Stoic Art of Better Living with Ancient Wisdom
― STOICISM: The Simplistic Timeless Stoic Art of Better Living with Ancient Wisdom
“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.”
― The Stoic Handbook: A Practical Guide for Modern Life
― The Stoic Handbook: A Practical Guide for Modern Life
“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.”
― The Stoic Handbook: A Practical Guide for Modern Life
― The Stoic Handbook: A Practical Guide for Modern Life
“By meditating on our thoughts, feelings, and desires, we are encouraging a sense of self-awareness and self-mastery. We observe the whimsical and impulsive movements of our mind without getting caught up in them, and in doing so we develop a greater understanding of ourselves.”
― The Stoic Handbook: A Practical Guide for Modern Life
― The Stoic Handbook: A Practical Guide for Modern Life
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