Quotes About Stoicism

Intelligence forbids tears.

If our minds were originally formed by nature in a sound and useful manner, then they pass on all the forces of fate, which imposes on us from outside in a relatively unobjectionable and more acceptable way.

Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference.

He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.

A central theme was recognizing what is in your control and what isn't—and acting on the one and ignoring the other. It's a philosophy that has resonated over the centuries. Reading

He yawned; he had finished the day, and he had also finished with his youth. Various tried and proved rules of conduct had already discreetly offered him their services: disillusioned epicureanism, smiling tolerance, resignation, flat seriousness, stoicism--all the aids whereby a man may savor, minute by minute, like a connoisseur, the failure of a life... 'I have attained the age of reason.

I don't stress too much on things, be it failure or success.

Sushma Swaraj has no personal ambition. I take things in my stride.

I just try to take everything in my stride.

In mixed martial arts, if you get kicked in the face, it's your job not to show any expression to your opponent.

To live in accordance with nature, therefore, was to live in accordance with God. Male or female, Greek or barbarian, free or slave, all were equally endowed with the ability to distinguish right from wrong. Syneidesis, the Stoics termed this spark of the divine within every mortal: 'conscience'. 'Alone of all creatures alive and treading the earth, it is we who bear a likeness to a god.'48

Life doesn't give a fuck who's living it.

I, who see the end of the world every day, and still I'm going on putting my clothes, and taking them off again, and eating and washing-uo the dishes and receiving visits, just as if nothing ever happened!

Such things happen," said Too-ticky

Minähän koen joka päivä maailmanlopun ja kuitenkin pukeudun ja riisuudun ja syön ja pesen astioita ja pidän teekutsuja aivan kuin mitään ei olisi tapahtunut!

when asked how he could remain so calm in a clutch situation: "Ten million years from now, when the sun burns out and the Earth is just a frozen snowball hurtling through space, nobody's going to care whether or not I got this guy out.

To Londoners, bombs and riots were just an extreme form of weather.

The spirit of those men of steel, / their gray-eyed wives and daughters

The British were fatalistic; it was the origin of their cynicism, but it also made them good sharers of misfortune. 'Oh, well, mustn't grumble!

the predominating characteristic of the Chinese was stoicism

I have learned to suffer in silence.

She had never allowed herself to be provoked; she had learned early that whenever a new situation presented itself, you had to remain cool and distant.

But O-Lan returned to the beating of his clothes and when tears dropped slowly and heavily from her eyes she did not put up her hand to wipe them away; only she beat the more steadily with her wooden stick upon the clothes spread over the stone.

You would rouse to anger a heart of stone.