Quotes About Stoicism

I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.

You know, Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and died gracefully, and there's a lot to be said for that.

it was like staring at a whitewashed wall, but without all the emotion

I do not have a sense of humor of any recognizable sort.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.

The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

Stop worrying, nobody gets out of this world alive.

It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.

It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres.

To all the defiant stoics, laughing and fighting lonesome battles in the face of adversity.

Both of our parents lived their lives practicing gaman—patience and resilience," said Nobusuke, the second-born son. "They never wasted anything—not food, time, or anger. Instead, they waited for things to work out.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

It is impossible to work up a satisfactory anger at someone who so steadfastly refuses to reciprocate. You win, Mr. Spock; I give up.

To endure what is unendurable is true endurance.

Acepta lo que venga tejido en el diseño de tu destino porque, ¿Qué podría acomodarse más adecuadamente a tus necesidades? Esto fue escrito hace dos mil años por Marco Aurelio, uno de esos seres humanos extraordinariamente escasos que tuvieron el poder mundano al mismo tiempo que la sabiduría

the stoic's carelessness of material things, combined with the epicurean's pleasure in them.

He thought of one of the guiding mottoes of his father's life: 'Never apologize, never explain.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

You can Laugh or you can cry, it changes nothing