Quotes About Stoicism

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

A great man does not lose his self-possession when he is afflicted; the ocean is not made muddy by the falling in of its banks.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

A good life fears not life, nor death.

It is not death we fear, but the thought of it.

So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.

Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change!

I don't really get scared. Want to know what else i don't feel?" PITY

It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends not to be in pain.

There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be called patient.

Until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared

Why ain't you mad?" I asked. "Might as well get mad at the wind for blowin'. Some things just be what they be.

So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.

I cannot afford to get upset, to leave this room with puffy eyes and a red nose. Crying is not an option.

So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts. Do

tengo mucha experiencia en no demostrar mis sentimientos, y eso es lo que hago.