Stoicism Quotes Quotes

“Don't be overheard complaining ... not even to yourself.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waist a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficient generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death's final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we know it was passing”
― Seneca

“We, too, are lit and put out. We suffer somewhat in the intervening period, but at either end of it there is a deep tranquillity. For, unless I'm mistaken, we are wrong, my dear Lucilius, in holding that death follows after, when in fact it precedes as well as succeeds. Death is all that was before us. What does it matter, after all, whether you cease to be or never begin, when the result of either is that you do not exist?”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“People look for retreats for themselves, in the country, by the coast, or in the hills. There is nowhere that a person can find a more peaceful and trouble-free retreat than in his mind. So constantly give yourself this retreat, and renew yourself.”
― Maya Bennett , STOICISM: The Simplistic Timeless Stoic Art of Better Living with Ancient Wisdom

“But those who forget the past, ignore the present, and fear for the future have a life that is very brief and filled with anxiety: when they come to face death, the wretches understand too late that for such a long time they have busied themselves in doing nothing.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

“Death is nonexistence. I know what it’s like. It will be the same after me as it was before me. If death holds any torment, then that torment must also have existed before we came forth into light, but back then, we felt nothing troubling.”
― Seneca, Lettere a Lucilio

“Don’t let the force of an impression when it first hits you knock you off your feet; just say to it, “Hold on a moment; let me see who you are and what you represent. Let me put you to the test.” ~ Epictetus”
― Maya Bennett, STOICISM: The Simplistic Timeless Stoic Art of Better Living with Ancient Wisdom

“Do not be overheard companining. Not even to yourself.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“I am grateful to those who abandoned and betrayed my soul, they unwillingly taught me how to survive and thrive alone.”
― Ivan Catanzaro, The Meaning Of Life Is To Fight: A Collection of Poems

“An eye looking for only that is green, and a tooth looking for what it easy to chew.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“Sometimes we choose to be blindfolded with the love of life. Putting emotions before reason.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“If you lose today every-day, you are lost every-day”
― Tiisetso Maloma, Introducing Ubuntu Stoicism: Gain Joy, Resilience, Productivity, and Defuse Anxiety

“When pain comes, it must not derail you from your set virtues. If it does, you have failed to practice your virtues by going with the hype of pain”
― Tiisetso Maloma, Introducing Ubuntu Stoicism: Gain Joy, Resilience, Productivity, and Defuse Anxiety

“Stoicism is a reminder to practice virtue – as virtue can’t be lived in words alone but with action.”
― Tiisetso Maloma, Introducing Ubuntu Stoicism: Gain Joy, Resilience, Productivity, and Defuse Anxiety

“I see Stoicism as a philosophy that helped people to contend with their positions and at the same time they tried to improve for their self’s sake, even if by little.”
― Tiisetso Maloma, Introducing Ubuntu Stoicism: Gain Joy, Resilience, Productivity, and Defuse Anxiety

“In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choice I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.” ~Epictetus”
― Maya Bennett , STOICISM: The Simplistic Timeless Stoic Art of Better Living with Ancient Wisdom

“Externals are nothing to a stoic. The falsehoods and artificial limitations of human society are nothing to proponents of the theater principle”
― Lashon Byrd

“Rid yourself of anything that saps or dampens your energy. Do not hold onto anything that has cut you off from itself.”
― Eduvie Donald

“The world is asking us the questions, and it couldn’t care less what we expect from it. But here’s the good news: real meaning doesn’t come from what the world gives you, but how you respond to it.”
― Phil Van Treuren, The Little Book of Stoic Quotes: Philosophy for a Meaningful and Courageous Life

“Birds weren’t given wings just to walk everywhere . . . and you weren’t born with resilience and a beautiful mind just to have an easy life.”
― Phil Van Treuren, The Little Book of Stoic Quotes: Philosophy for a Meaningful and Courageous Life

“Stoicism does not mean continued solitude or isolation, but it emphasises the importance of flexibility in different circumstances.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Your mind is your most powerful ally; master it, and no obstacle will ever stand in your way.”
― Sira Masetti

“Knowledge is not power until it is applied.”
― Eduvie Donald

“It is hard!; but that which we are not permitted to correct is rendered lighter by patience.”
― Quintus Horatius Flaccus / Horace; Richard Bentley

“Character is fate”
― Cornelius Nepos

“Most of us are “living the dream”—living, that is, the dream we once had for ourselves. We might be married to the person we once dreamed of marrying, have the children and job we once dreamed of having, and own the car we once dreamed of buying. But thanks to hedonic adaptation, as soon as we find ourselves living the life of our dreams, we start taking that life for granted. Instead of sepnding our days enjoying our good fortune.”
― William B. Irvine, A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

“The world rewards results, but it remembers resilience. Show up when it’s hardest — that’s where the story begins.”
― Biagio Maffettone

“If words could water, I wonder what mine would do — blossom flowers or burn gardens?”
― Sadia Hakim, The Weight of Tender Things

“This endless pursuit—jumping from one promising thought to the next—is what has left us directionless again and again.”
― Tiisetso Maloma, Daily Grace & Ubuntu Stoicism: For Yourself and the World

“Meditation teaches us another way. Its purpose is not to collect thoughts but to stop being carried off by them. When even the “good” ideas appear, we practice letting them pass untouched. This is the first step toward steadiness. Any idea worth keeping will return.”
― Tiisetso Maloma, Daily Grace & Ubuntu Stoicism: For Yourself and the World