Quotes About Stoicism

Tens inteira liberdade de te absteres dos sofrimentos do mundo, isso corresponde à tua natureza; mas talvez o facto de te absteres seja o único sofrimento que possas evitar

when you've been in this world for thirty years and had to make your way on your own, as has been my lot, you get hardened to surprises and don't take them too seriously.

That is how things stand today, little likely to cause me any uneasiness.

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Win or lose, just stay calm.

I'm good at winding up British people, but Americans are slightly different. A lot of them are more stoical. They're harder to get a reaction out of more of the time.

The one thing I'm good at is taking things day by day.

What people think of me is none of my business. Rodney Crowell paraphrasing the Greek Stoic Philosopher, Epictetus 55-135 AD

Stoicism is a logical philosophy.

Reinforced to me again and again was how I was a 'brave girl' for not crying, a 'good girl' for not complaining, and soon I began defining myself this way, equating strength with silence.

It isn't done easily, he said with a half smile. I'm just not one to complain overmuch.

disse-lhe que era preciso ter paciência, que os desgostos eram a parte principal da vida; os prazeres eram a exceção…

Era refratário às lágrimas; por isso mesmo padecia mais.

if something does go wrong, here is my advice... KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.

I had thus learned to push down my feelings, to force myself to not care, to do nothing and let things happen, come what may.

Viver no presente, como diziam os estóicos, como dizem todos os sábios, não é um sonho, não é um ideal, não é uma utopia: é a simplíssima e dificílima verdade de viver. A eternidade? Se ela é ''um perpétuo hoje'', como queria Santo Agostinho, é inútil esperá-la amanhã.

He's a loner who doesn't want to be alone, grappling with the incubus, a rippling of nocturnal waters, the nausea of unending nights. There are troubling moments of prescience, as he intuits future fragmentation, stoically kicking his way through the shards. He's just going to keep on living till he dies. Whether he paints himself in a good or bad light is not the point. The point is to lay stuff out, smooth the curling edges.

Resolve to know the laws of nature. Follow them in all circumstances; let them shape you; be guided by their perfect wisdom. —Epictetus, Greek philosopher

Stoicism doesn't mean repressing emotion and shunning pleasure, I learned, but—in essence—focusing on what is in our power and letting go of everything we can't control.

We need patient people who are able to endure the toughest disciplines.

I will venture to say, that in no writings whatever can be found more bark and steel for the mind, if I may use the expression; more that can brace and invigorate every manly and noble sentiment. No. 32 on patience, even under extreme misery, is wonderfully lofty, and as much above the rant of stoicism, as the Sun of Revelation is brighter than the twilight of Pagan philosophy.

This was how I was dealing with everyone and everything lately, taking the good when it came, and the bad the same way, knowing each would pass in its own time.

I make it a policy never to appear surprised - Dr Barlow