You are your choices. @ -Seneca
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is perspective, not the truth. @ -Marcus Aurelius
We suffer more in imagination than in reality. @ -Seneca
You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone. @ -Marcus Aurelius
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. @ -Marcus Aurelius
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. @ -Marcus Aurelius
Think long term. Execute short term. Experience now. @ -The Stoic Emperor
If you are easily provoked you are easily controlled. @ -The Stoic Emperor
Learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference. @ -Marcus Aurelius
Think progress, not perfection. @ -Ryan Holiday
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. @ -Marcus Aurelius
Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself. @ -Marcus Aurelius
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. @ -Epictetus
It is not external events themselves that cause us distress, but the way in which we think about them... It is our attitudes and reactions that give us trouble. We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them. @ -Epictetus
Don't be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you've been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?  @ -Marcus Aurelius
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. @ -Marcus Aurelius
A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking. @ -Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If you want to improve, you must be content to be thought foolish and stupid. @ -Epictetus
What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do. @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be a master of the mind, not mastered by the mind. @ -Zen Proverb
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. @ -Epictetus
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. @ -Seneca
If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you.
What we do now echoes in eternity. @ -Marcus Aurelius
I love to go and see all the things I am happy without. @ -Socrates
‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. @ -Voltaire
Do every act of your life as though it were the last act of your life. @ -Marcus Aurelius
In your actions, don't procrastinate. In your conversations, don't confuse. In your thoughts, don't wander. In your soul, don't be passive or aggressive. In your life, don't be all about business. @ -Marcus Aurelius
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly. @ -Epictetus
The tranquility that comes when you stop caring what they say. Or think, or do. Only what you do. @ -Marcus Aurelius
The limit is not the sky. The limit is the mind. @ -Wim Hof
What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others. @ -Confucius
When you can't control what's happening, challenge yourself to control the way you respond to what's happening. That's where your power is.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. @ -Epictetus
He has the most who is content with the least. @ -Diogenes
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. @ -Epictetus
Show people, don't tell people. @ -David Goggins
What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain. @ -Maya Angelou
There is no genius without a touch of madness. @ -Seneca
I begin to speak only when I'm certain what I'll say isn't better left unsaid. @ -Cato The Younger
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. @ -Viktor Frankl
Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have. @ -Epictetus
What matters most is not what the obstacles are but how we see them, how we react to them, and whether we keep our composure. @ -Ryan Holiday
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. @ -Epictetus
Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn't matter. @ -Marcus Aurelius
Ordinary men hate solitude. But the master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe. @ -Lao Tzu
The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence. @ -Seneca
False friendship is the worst. Avoid it at all costs. If you're honest and straightforward and mean well, it should show in your eyes. It should be unmistakable. @ -Marcus Aurelius
Don't aim to be perfect. Aim to be antifragile. @ -Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Your worst battle is between what you know and what you feel.
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. @ -Marcus Aurelius
If it's endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining. @ -Marcus Aurelius
The responsibility is all yours; no one can stop you from being honest or straightforward. @ -Marcus Aurelius
Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack. @ -Seneca
Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks? @ -Socrates
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. @ -Marcus Aurelius
To be calm is the highest achievement of the self. @ -Zen Proverb
Laugh at your problems; everybody else does. @ -Seneca
Our lack of confidence is not the result of difficulty. The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence. @ -Seneca
Success is based off of your willingness to work your ass off no matter what obstacles are in your way. @ -David Goggins
Don't waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people – unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful. @ -Marcus Aurelius
You will be attacked for doing the right thing. Do it anyway. @ -The Stoic Emperor
Time discovers truth. @ -Seneca
Stoicism is about the domestication of emotions, not their elimination. @ -Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace. @ -Epictetus
The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is so we might listen more and talk less. @ -Zeno of Citium
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. @ -Seneca
Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power. @ -James Allen
People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them. @ -Epictetus
Let us meet with bravery whatever may befall us. Let us never feel a shudder at the thought of being wounded or of being made a prisoner, or of poverty or persecution. @ -Seneca
Discomfort is the currency of success. @ -Brooke Castillo
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. @ -Lao Tzu
The journey is less difficult when we find meaning in the struggle.
Relentlessly prune bullshit, don't wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. @ -Paul Graham
Don't seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will – then your life will flow well. @ -Epictetus
Be an island of calm in the sea of craziness. @ -The Ancient Sage
But if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach. @ -Marcus Aurelius
Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions , not outside. @ -Marcus Aurelius
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. @ -Marcus Aurelius
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. @ -Epictetus
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. @ -Seneca
The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it. @ -Marcus Aurelius
When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn't have to look outside themselves for approval. @ -Epictetus
A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for. @ -Marcus Aurelius
Nothing endures but change. @ -Heraclitus
You amplify everything you react to. @ -The Stoic Emperor
All this hurrying from place to place won't bring you any relief, for you're travelling in the company of your own emotions, followed by your troubles all the way. @ -Seneca
Time heals what reason cannot. @ -Seneca
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable. @ -Seneca
What upsets people is not things themselves, but their judgements about these things. @ -Epictetus
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. @ -William James
Know thyself. @ -Socrates
You want to live - but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying - and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead? @ -Seneca
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. @ -Seneca
What is rare is not raw talent, skill, or even confidence, but humility, diligence, and self-awareness. @ -Ryan Holiday
But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future. @ -Seneca
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. @ -Marcus Aurelius
He who indulges in empty fears earns himself real fears. @ -Seneca
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. @ -Marcus Aurelius
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. @ -Epicurus
Accept everything which happens, even if it seem disagreeable, because it leads to this, the health of the universe. @ -Marcus Aurelius
Be present above all else. @ -Naval Ravikant
The essence of philosophy is that we should live so that our happiness depends as little as possible on external causes. @ -Epictetus
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. @ -Epictetus
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. @ -Seneca
Receive without pride, let go without attachment. @ -Marcus Aurelius
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. @ -Marcus Aurelius
Where fear is, happiness is not. @ -Seneca
Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. @ -Epictetus
It is not daily increase but daily decrease, hack away the unessential. The closer to the source, the less wastage there is. @ -Bruce Lee
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. @ -Marcus Aurelius
Misfortune is the test of a person's merit. @ -Seneca
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. @ -Seneca
No great thing is created suddenly. @ -Epictetus
He is richest who is content with the least, for contentment is the wealth of nature. @ -Socrates
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable. @ -Seneca
Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them. @ -Seneca
Injustice never rules forever. @ -Seneca
He who is brave is free. @ -Seneca
It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable. @ -Seneca
If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person. @ -Seneca
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn. @ -Seneca
To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden. @ -Seneca
Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it. @ -Epictetus
You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. @ -Marcus Aurelius
Who is your master? Anyone who has control over things upon which you've set your heart, or over things which you seek to avoid. @ -Epictetus
Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. @ -Seneca
Just stick to your principles. And rest assured that, if you remain true to them, the same people who made fun of you will come to admire you. @ -Epictetus
Men learn while they teach. @ -Seneca
God has entrusted me with myself. @ -Epictetus
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? @ -Rumi
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be, be one. @ -Marcus Aurelius
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. @ -Marcus Aurelius
While we wait for life, life passes. @ -Seneca
It is quality rather than quantity that matters. @ -Seneca
To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. @ -Heraclitus
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant. @ -Seneca
The only thing that belongs to us is the time. @ -Seneca
Each day provides its own gifts. @ -Marcus Aurelius
It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it. @ -Seneca
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil. @ -Cicero
The great law of nature is that it never stops. There is no end. @ -Ryan Holiday
The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief. @ -Othello
The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable. @ -Conor McGregor
Observe all men, thyself most. @ -Benjamin Franklin
Confine yourself to the present. @ -Marcus Aurelius
Lay hold of today's task, and you will not need to depend so much upon tomorrow's. @ -Seneca
Everything turns on your assumptions about it, and that's on you. You can pluck out the hasty judgment at will, and like steering a ship around the point, you will find calm seas, fair weather and a safe port. @ -Marcus Aurelius
It is part of the cure to want to be cured. @ -Seneca
Man conquers the world by conquering himself. @ -Zeno of Citium
Two elements must therefore be rooted out once for all, the fear of future suffering, and the recollection of past suffering; since the latter no longer concerns me, and the former concerns me not yet. @ -Seneca
Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants. @ -Epictetus
The first step: Don't be anxious. Nature controls it all. @ -Marcus Aurelius
He who lives in harmony with himself, lives in harmony with the universe. @ -Marcus Aurelius
If you judge, investigate. @ -Seneca
The willing are led by fate, the reluctant dragged. @ -Cleanthes
If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault… Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion. @ -Epictetus
Problems only exist in the human mind. @ -Anthony de Mello
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. @ -Marcus Aurelius
Ignorance is the cause of fear. @ -Seneca
No human thing is of serious importance. @ -Plato
Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart. @ -Seneca
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. @ -Marcus Aurelius
A king is one who fears nothing. @ -Seneca
Too many people believe that everything must be pleasurable in life. @ -Robert Greene
Peace must be found in the imperfect present. @ -The Stoic Emperor
Be the master OF mind rather than mastered BY mind. @ -Japanese Proverb
The mind freed from passions is an impenetrable fortress – a person has no more secure place of refuge for all time. @ -Marcus Aurelius
Discomfort is a wise teacher. @ -Caroline Myss
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. @ -Viktor Frankl
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall. @ -Seneca
The obstacle is the way. @ -Ryan Holiday
Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. @ -Steve Jobs
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. @ -Seneca
For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose. @ -Marcus Aurelius
Accept in an unruffled spirit that which is inevitable. @ -Seneca
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. @ -Seneca
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned. @ -Seneca
Is there such a thing as a cheerful pessimist? That's what I am. @ -Charlie Munger
A great mind becomes a great fortune. @ -Seneca
The wise man is neither raised up by prosperity nor cast down by adversity; for always he has striven to rely predominantly on himself, and to derive all joy from himself. @ -Seneca
One who asks fearfully teaches us to say no. @ -Seneca
Only the educated are free. @ -Epictetus
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. @ -Seneca
A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not. @ -Seneca
The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself. @ -Robert Greene
Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back. @ -Marcus Aurelius
The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not. @ -Seneca
The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred. @ -Dalai Lama
No man is free who is not master of himself. @ -Epictetus
A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control. @ -Naval Ravikant
Mastery of reading and writing requires a master. Still more so life. @ -Marcus Aurelius
Own less stuff. Find more purpose.
When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, remember that your defining characteristic—what defines a human being—is to work with others. @ -Marcus Aurelius
Discard your misperceptions. Stop being jerked like a puppet. Limit yourself to the present. @ -Marcus Aurelius
Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go. @ -Marcus Aurelius
All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them. @ -Marcus Aurelius
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods. @ -Socrates
No one is laughable who laughs at himself. @ -Seneca
By going within. Nowhere you can go is more peaceful — more free of interruptions — than your own soul. @ -Marcus Aurelius
Great times are great softeners. @ -Ryan Holiday
Today I escaped from the crush of circumstances, or better put, I threw them out, for the crush wasn't from outside me but in my own assumptions. @ -Marcus Aurelius
The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately. @ -Seneca
The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity. @ -Seneca
Loyalty that is bought with money, may be overcome by money. @ -Seneca
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. @ -Epictetus
The life of folly is empty of gratitude, full of anxiety: it is focused wholly on the future. @ -Seneca
The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. @ -Epictetus
The wish for healing has always been half of health. @ -Seneca
True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied, for he that is wants nothing. @ -Seneca
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve. @ -Lao Tzu
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways. @ -Seneca
We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discloses the truth. @ -Seneca
Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain. @ -Marcus Aurelius
The measure of wisdom is how calm you are when facing any given situation. @ -Naval Ravikant
The things you own end up owning you. @ -Fight Club
Order your soul. Reduce your wants. @ -Augustine of Hippo
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. @ -Marcus Aurelius
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. @ -Seneca
Many men will meet me who are drunkards, lustful, ungrateful, greedy, and excited by the frenzy of ambition. @ -Seneca
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember. @ -Seneca
That one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backwards, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it... but love it. @ -Friedrich Nietzsche
To live happily is an inward power of the soul. @ -Marcus Aurelius
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge. @ -Marcus Aurelius
If a person doesn't know to which port they sail, no wind is favourable. @ -Seneca
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems. @ -Epictetus
There is nothing that the busy man is less busy with than living; there is nothing harder to learn. @ -Seneca
Failure and deprivation are the best educators and purifiers. @ -Albert Einstein
Equanimity is power.
The present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain. @ -Seneca
The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength. @ -Marcus Aurelius
That's how it seems to go: We're never happy with what we have, we want what others have too. We want to have more than everyone else. @ -Ryan Holiday
Move toward resistance and pain. @ -Robert Greene
Silence is the respite of the confident and strong. @ -Ryan Holiday
To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle. @ -Albert Einstein
