The Stoic way of Life Quotes

“Marcus Aurelius said, “It isn’t manly to be enraged. Rather, gentleness and civility are more human, and therefore manlier. A real man doesn’t give way to anger and discontent, and such a person has strength, courage, and endurance—unlike the angry and complaining. The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.”
― Marcus Epictetus, The Stoic way of Life: The Ultimate Guide of Stoicism to make your Everyday Modern Life Calm, Confident - Master the Art of Living, Emotional Resilience & Perseverance

“Epictetus argued that a Stoic – by the way he framed events in his mind – could be sick and happy, in jeopardy and happy, and dying and happy, all at the same time.”
― Marcus Epictetus, The Stoic way of Life: The Ultimate Guide of Stoicism to make your Everyday Modern Life Calm, Confident - Master the Art of Living, Emotional Resilience & Perseverance

“Everything we have is borrowed from the cosmos. Materials come and go, but goodness and joy remain.”
― Marcus Epictetus, The Stoic way of Life: The Ultimate Guide of Stoicism to make your Everyday Modern Life Calm, Confident - Master the Art of Living, Emotional Resilience & Perseverance

“In other words, it is easier to suffer sorrows, poverty, or illness in a noble way than to achieve pleasure, riches, or health in a shameful one.”
― Marcus Epictetus, The Stoic way of Life: The Ultimate Guide of Stoicism to make your Everyday Modern Life Calm, Confident - Master the Art of Living, Emotional Resilience & Perseverance

“The most important things about life are the things that are up to you, your emotions, and your actions.”
― Marcus Epictetus, The Stoic way of Life: The Ultimate Guide of Stoicism to make your Everyday Modern Life Calm, Confident - Master the Art of Living, Emotional Resilience & Perseverance

“Self-discipline begins with conquering and subduing our thoughts. You cannot control what you do if you don’t control what you think. Motivation will start you on a path, but it is the discipline that keeps you moving. This is why we can’t let externals determine whether something was worth it or not. The key to success lies within us.”
― Marcus Epictetus, The Stoic way of Life: The Ultimate Guide of Stoicism to make your Everyday Modern Life Calm, Confident - Master the Art of Living, Emotional Resilience & Perseverance

“Reading is the shortest road to personal improvement, especially today, with access to almost all of the world’s information available at our fingertips. It also acts to remind us of our own short-lived, transient nature and why it is so important not to waste the limited amount of time we are given on this planet.”
― Marcus Epictetus, The Stoic way of Life: The Ultimate Guide of Stoicism to make your Everyday Modern Life Calm, Confident - Master the Art of Living, Emotional Resilience & Perseverance

“In fact, you can be too competitive (insatiable), too caring (co-dependent), and too disciplined (repressed). In the delicate spectrum of virtue, only those that represent balance – the mean, as in golden mean – and embody moderation shield themselves from the downside of the extremes, establishing the delicate range of desired qualities”
― Marcus Epictetus, The Stoic way of Life: The Ultimate Guide of Stoicism to make your Everyday Modern Life Calm, Confident - Master the Art of Living, Emotional Resilience & Perseverance

“But trying to control every variable with your limited energy and attempting to get from A to B exactly the way you dreamed you would is not effective and doesn’t allow for creativity and unforeseen routes and solutions”
― Marcus Epictetus, The Stoic way of Life: The Ultimate Guide of Stoicism to make your Everyday Modern Life Calm, Confident - Master the Art of Living, Emotional Resilience & Perseverance

“Humility kills pride, which is dangerous. We should seek to kill pride before it gets us into trouble that might even kill us. We should seek to kill pride before it kills the things we love.”
― Marcus Epictetus, The Stoic way of Life: The Ultimate Guide of Stoicism to make your Everyday Modern Life Calm, Confident - Master the Art of Living, Emotional Resilience & Perseverance

“Stress is the natural enemy of mindfulness because stress demands complete attention, putting all other thoughts aside. Mindfulness reminds us that we live in a finite, well- defined present, and by focusing on that present, we can defeat stress – if only for a time and enjoy the world around us.”
― Marcus Epictetus, The Stoic way of Life: The Ultimate Guide of Stoicism to make your Everyday Modern Life Calm, Confident - Master the Art of Living, Emotional Resilience & Perseverance

“The Stoic tenet, Amor Fati – “a love of fate” – isn’t just coping with your fate; it is openly welcoming it. It’s better to throw yourself into the game than warm the bench on the sidelines. Please note that this is different from fatalism. Stoicism says to change what you can but recognize the limits of your control. When you accept what’s happening, you can respond from the reality of the situation rather than how you wish it to be.”
― Marcus Epictetus, The Stoic way of Life: The Ultimate Guide of Stoicism to make your Everyday Modern Life Calm, Confident - Master the Art of Living, Emotional Resilience & Perseverance

“When someone acts in a way that’s objectionable, we should tell ourselves that is to be expected from time to time. It’s just a part of life.”
― Marcus Epictetus, The Stoic way of Life: The Ultimate Guide of Stoicism to make your Everyday Modern Life Calm, Confident - Master the Art of Living, Emotional Resilience & Perseverance

“Do not stoop to their level. React to anger with compassion.”
― Marcus Epictetus, The Stoic way of Life: The Ultimate Guide of Stoicism to make your Everyday Modern Life Calm, Confident - Master the Art of Living, Emotional Resilience & Perseverance

“So the next time you feel pain—whether it’s a broken arm or a bout of depression, or the sting of a rude remark—think about what a Stoic would say. They would say: “I don’t like this; I wish it hadn’t happened, but I am at least learning what pain is. I am exploring my tolerance for it. I am growing because of it.”
― Marcus Epictetus, The Stoic way of Life: The Ultimate Guide of Stoicism to make your Everyday Modern Life Calm, Confident - Master the Art of Living, Emotional Resilience & Perseverance

“We have only a finite number of resources to draw from each day, so why waste your energy on uncontrollable events?”
― Marcus Epictetus, The Stoic way of Life: The Ultimate Guide of Stoicism to make your Everyday Modern Life Calm, Confident - Master the Art of Living, Emotional Resilience & Perseverance

“We applaud ourselves for becoming the room‘s smartest individual when we should be wondering why we were too frightened to associate ourselves with more knowledgeable individuals in the first place.”
― Marcus Epictetus, The Stoic way of Life: The Ultimate Guide of Stoicism to make your Everyday Modern Life Calm, Confident - Master the Art of Living, Emotional Resilience & Perseverance

“The ego can be a strong but unreliable driver of success. It will caress you on a good day, whispering that you are invincible and better than anyone else but it will bury you with pain on a bad day.”
― Marcus Epictetus, The Stoic way of Life: The Ultimate Guide of Stoicism to make your Everyday Modern Life Calm, Confident - Master the Art of Living, Emotional Resilience & Perseverance

“They assume that any negative has an equivalent opposite, flipping the concept of premeditatio malorum on its head. Any negative is, therefore, a positive. According to Stoic teachings, we should accept challenges and see them as chances to exercise the virtues of justice, charity, religion, hope, courage, temperance, and discretion.”
― Marcus Epictetus, The Stoic way of Life: The Ultimate Guide of Stoicism to make your Everyday Modern Life Calm, Confident - Master the Art of Living, Emotional Resilience & Perseverance

“Modern Stoic, Ryan Holiday, has concisely defined it as expecting a fun-filled, fruitful day, but being ready just in case it’s not.”
― Marcus Epictetus, The Stoic way of Life: The Ultimate Guide of Stoicism to make your Everyday Modern Life Calm, Confident - Master the Art of Living, Emotional Resilience & Perseverance

“Friedrich Nietzsche popularized the idea of embracing one’s destiny around 1882 using the Latin phrase Amor fati which means “love of fate.”
― Marcus Epictetus, The Stoic way of Life: The Ultimate Guide of Stoicism to make your Everyday Modern Life Calm, Confident - Master the Art of Living, Emotional Resilience & Perseverance

“To the Stoics, hope was the worst and most addictive of feelings – the higher you are raised, the lower you fall.”
― Marcus Epictetus, The Stoic way of Life: The Ultimate Guide of Stoicism to make your Everyday Modern Life Calm, Confident - Master the Art of Living, Emotional Resilience & Perseverance

“Life can be much simpler if you reduce your need for physical comforts. Set your targets for the exercise and stick to them. This will make you stronger.”
― Marcus Epictetus, The Stoic way of Life: The Ultimate Guide of Stoicism to make your Everyday Modern Life Calm, Confident - Master the Art of Living, Emotional Resilience & Perseverance

“Although some people think Stoicism considers all emotions as weaknesses, Stoicism, in fact, recognizes that positive emotions strengthen you and aid you in difficult situations. Remember, your body is an extension of your soul, and Stoicism offers growth of the soul.”
― Marcus Epictetus, The Stoic way of Life: The Ultimate Guide of Stoicism to make your Everyday Modern Life Calm, Confident - Master the Art of Living, Emotional Resilience & Perseverance

“The ancient Stoics saw every day as brimming with possibilities. A single conversation or a single occurrence can fully alter the course of your life.”
― Marcus Epictetus, The Stoic way of Life: The Ultimate Guide of Stoicism to make your Everyday Modern Life Calm, Confident - Master the Art of Living, Emotional Resilience & Perseverance

“Becoming a Stoic involves seeking satisfaction in everything you have. Everything we have is borrowed from the cosmos. Materials come and go, but goodness and joy remain.”
― Marcus Epictetus, The Stoic way of Life: The Ultimate Guide of Stoicism to make your Everyday Modern Life Calm, Confident - Master the Art of Living, Emotional Resilience & Perseverance

“It is important to avoid putting too much value on our things because they may not always be there.”
― Marcus Epictetus, The Stoic way of Life: The Ultimate Guide of Stoicism to make your Everyday Modern Life Calm, Confident - Master the Art of Living, Emotional Resilience & Perseverance

“The Good Life is indifferent to oblivious things such as fitness, prosperity, and prestige because they do not exist. They are neutral. For overall happiness, wealthy or poor, good or wrong, does not matter. We should learn to be indifferent to indifferent things and be content with what nature puts on our plates.”
― Marcus Epictetus, The Stoic way of Life: The Ultimate Guide of Stoicism to make your Everyday Modern Life Calm, Confident - Master the Art of Living, Emotional Resilience & Perseverance

“For starters, if you behave bravely during the day and get drunk at night, you are not genuinely noble because, by binge drinking, you violate the virtue of self- discipline. Virtue is a kit for all-or-nothing.”
― Marcus Epictetus, The Stoic way of Life: The Ultimate Guide of Stoicism to make your Everyday Modern Life Calm, Confident - Master the Art of Living, Emotional Resilience & Perseverance

“Reflect on what you can control and acknowledge what you cannot. Feeling a need to justify yourself results from knowing you have not done your best or acted inappropriately.”
― Marcus Epictetus, The Stoic way of Life: The Ultimate Guide of Stoicism to make your Everyday Modern Life Calm, Confident - Master the Art of Living, Emotional Resilience & Perseverance