Quotes About Stoicism

As for things that could not be changed, they must stoically be endured.

frase del estoico griego Epicteto: «Pobre desgraciado, que llevas a Dios en tu interior y no lo sabes».

One must bear what cannot be escaped.

there was dignity to be found in stoicism

It shouldn't have hurt. She should be used to it by

We ought to be making North some now," he said with the utmost restraint.

One who cannot benefit by patience will die in grief.

She is not a girl. She is a block of stone. She is a piece of wall. She is something against which other things impact without her permission or understanding.

We were, are, relentlessly, pridefully, stoical. We admire fortitude. We were raised to think a person has a right to be upset, in the event of loss or disappointment, but there are ways to acknowledge it without plodding through the embarrassment of a scene. Stop crying. Pull yourself together. Be brave.

I had trained myself to show no weakness.

According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.

I don't like to show my weaknesses.

Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal.

I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.

The Chinaman has only a passive courage, but this courage he possesses in the highest degree. His indifference to death is truly extraordinary. When he is ill, he sees it approach, and does not falter. When condemned, and already in the hands of an officer, he manifests no fear.

I try not to think about the things I can't control.

I broke my back, I broke my ankle. I didn't cry then.

I don't cry easily.

I don't cry about anything.

If there are some losses that you take, then we're all big boys - we shouldn't be crying.

I'm not really a crying type.

No flipping tables over any more for me.

The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.

Epictetus, I think, said not to be concerned with death, because life is the presence of feeling and emotion and awareness, and death is the absence of all of that, which means you won't have any awareness. So why worry about it ?