Ryan

“The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.”
― Epicurus

“There is, I assure you, a medical art for the soul. It is philosophy, whose aid need not be sought, as in bodily diseases, from outside ourselves. We must endeavor with all our resources and all our strength to become capable of doctoring ourselves.”
― Cicero

“No one dies except on his own day. You are throwing away none of your own time; for what you leave behind does not belong to you.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“And do you know why we have not the power to attain this Stoic ideal? It is because we refuse to believe in our power. Nay, of a surety, there is something else which plays a part: it is because we are in love with our vices; we uphold them and prefer to make excuses for them rather than shake them off. We mortals have been endowed with sufficient strength by nature, if only we use this strength, if only we concentrate our powers and rouse them all to help us or at least not to hinder us. The reason is unwillingness, the excuse, inability.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic