Quotes About Stoicism

I get over it quickly and never lose control of myself.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

Epictetus stated, "When I see an anxious person, I ask myself, what do they want? For if a person didn´t want something outside of their own control, why would they be stricken by anxiety?

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer.

This would never happen to Van Damme. Heroes never shit. They only fuck and kill.

In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

I cry too easily," she said in vexation. "I always have. I hate it." "Why?" "It shows weakness." "It shows strength," he said. "Stoic people are the weak ones.

Mieux vaut être indifférente et digne que malheureuse et pathétique.

we won't borrow trouble—not when we have enough to see us through the day.

Got to die of something, Giraldi observed. Might as well put back a few pints while you wait to see what it is.

Ow," I complained. I keep my complaints succinct

I grew up in a household where we didn't really talk about our feelings, and where the only reason you went to a doctor was because you'd accidentally cut off a limb with a chain saw.

I'm not being mean or anything fu.. it.. It is what it is I'm not dealing with him.

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.

As it is with a play, so it is with life, what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how good it is.

If you never expect anything from anyone you'll never be disappointed.

Don't be maudlin. You're a librarian, for God's sake. Toughen up.

It is a destiny of a woman to suffer in silence.

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

This was the kind of woman she understood, a woman after her own cold heart.

I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.

Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.