Quotes About Stoicism

Parents of murdered children have it worst, and to me the fathers have it even worse than the mothers because they are taught to be stoic, to "act like a man.

Charlotte, having seen his bodyBorne before her on a shutter,Like a well-conducted person,Went on cutting bread and butter.

Nearly two thousand years ago the Greek philosopher, Epictctus, stated that people are disturbed "not by things, but by the views we take of them.

a stoic always kept two files in his mind: one for those things that are up to him and within his power, and one for those that are not up to him and thus beyond his power. If you pay lots of attention to events beyond your power, you will ultimately have a life of fear and guilt; you must let those go and pay attention only to those things within your power.

I think the way to stop it is to shrug it off. Or take it with your tongue in your cheek. Sure, that's the system. At any rate, it's the system that works for you. It's the automatic control board that keeps you out there where nothing matters, where it's only you and the keyboard and nothing else. Because it's gotta be that way. You gotta stay clear of anything serious.

It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than the people who are laughing and happy.

It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.

Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.

The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides.

Put an end once and for all to this discussion of what a good person should be, and be one.

There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.

Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.

I don't really get excited about good things happening to me.

The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.

Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

If you're a sniveler, a whiner, a complainer, you will never be happy. We all have that side. Get a little stoical and just take the pain.

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse than to feel.

One should treat one's fate as one does one's health; enjoy it when it is good, be patient with it when it is poor, and never attempt any drastic cure save as an ultimate resort.

Set honor in one eye and death in th' other, and I will look on both indifferently. I love then name of honor more than I fear death.