Stocism Quotes

“Casting aside other things, hold to the precious few; and besides bear in mind that every man lives only the present, which is an indivisible point, and that all the rest of his life is either past or is uncertain. Brief is man's life and small the nook of the earth where he lives; brief, too, is the longest posthumous fame, buoyed only by a succession of poor human beings who will very soon die and who know little of themselves, much less of someone who died long ago.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“After ejection I had about thirty seconds to make my last statement in freedom before I landed in the main street of a little village right ahead. And so help me, I whispered to myself: "Five years down there, at least. I'm leaving the world of technology and entering the world of Epictetus.”
― James B. Stockdale, Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus's Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior

“May you be your own master; may your mind, which is now driven this way and that by its concerns, come at last to a halt, sure and content in itself; may you come to know those true goods that belong to you in the moment you understand them, and so feel no need of additional years.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Life was never crafted for perfection — it was carved through failure. But fear not the fall; for it is in rising, again and again, that resilience forges the soul into something unbreakable.”
― Gary Tolan aka King Tolan

“...whatever happens has always happened, and always will, and is happening at this very moment, everywhere. Just like this.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations: A New Translation

“People failed me so many times, I stopped expecting anything. I’m not bitter—I’m just numb. You can’t be disappointed when you no longer care.”
― Gary Tolan aka King Tolan

“Life’s lessons arrive disguised as challenges, but each one is a quiet conversation with the universe—reminding you that wisdom isn’t something you find, it’s something you become.”
― Gary Tolan aka King Tolan