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7,214	“Developing the extremely rare attitude of not minding how life is happening is a billion times better than prolonging your life, even if by a trillion years.”	stoicism
7,215	“There is a switch in the air tonight. It’s not suffocating, like breakups all those years ago, but clean and clear. He does not want me anymore so I tilt my head, take a breath and say, “Okay. I understand.” It’s calm now. My heart didn’t break, it kept on beating like a stoic marching forward without looking back, and I will be a writer now. I love so many people, still. I think I will write about them forever.”	stoicism
7,216	“Some people would be ashamed of driving the cars, or living in the houses, some people are showing off.”	stoicism
7,217	“You have two essential tasks in life: to be a good person and to pursue the occupation that you love. Everything else is a waste of energy and a squandering of your potential.”	stoicism
7,218	“We all die having lived a full life, even those who die while they are being born.”	stoicism
7,219	“Anxiety is the shadow of what we do not want to lose.”	stoicism
7,220	“To plan is to hope … without feeling passive.”	stoicism
7,221	“Being grateful for the shade of a tree is not nearly as honourable as planting a tree.”	stoicism
7,222	“It takes selfishness to stop someone from killing themself.”	stoicism
7,223	“To live is to owe life to die.”	stoicism
7,224	“It is impossible to separate the art of living from the art of dying, because to be living is to be dying.”	stoicism
7,225	“A suicide attempt is an act of fighting for one’s death.”	stoicism
7,226	“Death is freedom from life.”	stoicism
7,227	“Not complaining is sometimes a show off of tolerance or patience.”	stoicism
7,228	“The ability to utter wise words is not exclusive to the wise.”	stoicism
7,229	“Pleasure is often felt through the tongue or genitals as an attempt to distract oneself from the pain one is feeling through the heart.”	stoicism
7,230	“To chase pleasure is to be chased by pain.”	stoicism
7,231	“Sunglasses are all too often used to hide shyness … or unhappiness.”	stoicism
7,232	“A thing named, misnamed, unnamed, or renamed is still itself.”	stoicism
7,233	“To give something or someone your attention is to give it or them a portion of your life.”	stoicism
7,234	“Life sometimes shows kindheartedness by not handing us the success or fame we want, until we have matured enough to be able to handle it.”	stoicism
7,235	“Being patient with a fool requires one not to be one.”	stoicism
7,236	“Unhappiness and the like often inspire us to perform random acts of unkindness.”	stoicism
7,237	“A truth is not any less truthful, when it is said by someone who did not discover, or does not understand, it.”	stoicism
7,238	“A long life is a curse if you have a short temper.”	stoicism
7,239	“Slavery often masquerades as freedom.”	stoicism
7,240	“The person you are mad at for being late could be late.”	stoicism
7,241	“We prefer ourselves into unhappiness.”	stoicism
7,242	“Arrogance gives confidence … a bad name.”	stoicism
7,243	“Because of things such as arrogance, alcohol, and promiscuity, some people are each a legend in the unmaking.”	stoicism
7,244	“There is usually at least one person praying for a situation, or an outcome, that is the exact opposite of the one someone or some people are praying for.”	stoicism
7,245	“Living is the outside of dying.”	stoicism
7,246	“You have not yet reaped the sweetest fruits of meditation, if you still do not meditate only to meditate.”	stoicism
7,247	“You can look unhappy but feel the opposite. Or vice versa.”	stoicism
7,248	“It is humanly impossible to be unhappy while you are dancing or laughing willingly.”	stoicism
7,249	“Some of the things we are trying to pray away were caused by some of our answered prayers.”	stoicism
7,250	“Asia and Europe are corners in the Universe; every sea, a drop in the Universe; Mount Athos, a clod of earth in the Universe; every instant of time, a pin-prick of eternity. All things are petty, easily changed, vanishing away. All things come from that other world, starting from that common governing principle, or else are secondary consequences of it.”	stoicism
7,251	“Soon you will be dead and none of it will matter”	stoicism
7,252	“The most fruitful breaks are often those we are or were forced to take by life.”	stoicism
7,253	“It is a curse to be childish, but a blessing to be childlike.”	stoicism
7,254	“Remind yourself that what you love is mortal … at the very moment you are taking joy in something, present yourself with the opposite impressions. What harm is it, just when you are kissing your little child, to say: Tomorrow you will die, or to your friend similarly: Tomorrow one of us will go away, and we shall not see one another any more?”	stoicism
7,255	“If you haven’t learned something From periods of suffering, If you haven’t wrung the juices Of your own pain and drank them For your own nourishment, You have wasted your experience And missed the chance To expand the capacity For being stronger the next time That these seasons arrive at your door.”	stoicism
7,256	“You owe it to yourself and to the world to actively engage with the brief moment you have with this planet. You cannot retreat exclusively into ideas. You must contribute.”	stoicism
7,257	“Tell us your secrets.’ [23] ‘I refuse, as this is up to me.’ ‘I will put you in chains.’ ‘What’s that you say, friend? It’s only my leg you will chain, not even God can conquer my will.’ [24] ‘I will throw you into prison.’ ‘Correction – it is my body you will throw there.’ ‘I will behead you.’ ‘Well, when did I ever claim that mine was the only neck that couldn’t be severed?”	stoicism
7,258	“I sacrificed much to be where I am today, yet I will sacrifice much more to get to where I need to be someday.”	stoicism
7,259	“Part of patience is knowing your truth and staying loyal to it; you just can’t allow your face to betray what an attack on it actually makes you feel.”	stoicism
7,260	“Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where is all that now? Smoke, dust, legend…or not even a legend. Think of all the examples. And how trivial the things we want so passionately are. An emotional response is a human response, I get it. I too have succumbed to emotion, more often than I care to admit. But it is also a futile response. It isn’t an objectively beneficial response. This is central to Stoicism.”	stoicism
7,261	“A shallow reading of a problem begets outrage; a detailed approach to a problem encourages moderation.”	stoicism
7,262	“Life is a pilgrimage and a struggle. All we have of time is a moment; the universe is in constant flux; our bodies are fragile; our senses grasp so little; our souls are a mist; the future is a fog; and fame is fleeting.”	stoicism
7,263	“Často sa dopúšťa bezprávia aj ten, kto nič nerobí, nielen ten, kto niečo robí.”	stoicism
7,264	“Najlepší spôsob obrany je nepodobať sa tým, čo nám ubližujú.”	stoicism
7,265	“man was given two ears and one mouth for a reason”	stoicism
7,266	“Halleck came from people who regarded a slight change of facial expression as adequate to convey the pain of a severed limb.”	stoicism
7,267	“Stoicism is designed to be medicine for the soul.”	stoicism
7,268	“Be someone who is cool under pressure. Value serenity instead of outrage. It seems that our culture is moving in the wrong direction here. If you are blessed enough to not be on social media, you might be surprised to learn that the angriest, most passionate public figures are rewarded with the most clicks and biggest audiences. Our culture has begun to confuse passion with substance, reward the loudest and angriest voices, and thus incentivize behavior wholly at odds with Stoic wisdom. The number of decibels your voice hits as you scream about how right you are is not necessarily an indicator of how much sense you are making. As a society founded on reason and Western Enlightenment ideals, we must hold ourselves to a higher standard. We have to collectively stop allowing emotion and passion to pass for reason and factual debate.”	stoicism
7,269	“The media’s goal is to literally challenge your ability to be still. A tough American, intent on improving upon their current self, is not tricked into an emotional reaction by these headlines. You do not write an angry tweet, you do not hurl an insult. You are cool and measured, and skeptical. You are curious what the agenda of the journalist might be and what facts or context they might be leaving out. You seek out a different story on the same topic from an opposing view, and you find out that many of the claims made in the original story were convincingly debunked. And just like that, you are a Zen master of stillness and Stoicism.”	stoicism
7,270	“See? You're using the stoic glacier method." "Remind me, what's the stoic glacier method?" "It's the slow process of shaping someone's behavior by force of one's own personal stoicism.”	stoicism
7,271	“There was no meaning in why he was here, but he was, and that was enough.”	stoicism
7,272	“I have, I hold whatever of mine I have ever had. There is no reason for you to suppose me conquered and yourself my conqueror. It is your fortune which has overcome mine. As for those fleeting possessions which change their owners, I know not where they are; what belongs to myself is with me, and ever will be.”	stoicism
7,273	“Si len úbohá dušička nesúca mŕtvolu,” ako vravel Epiktetos.”	stoicism
7,274	“Growth is often the cause or the result of pain.”	stoicism
7,275	“Education teaches us how to make a living, not how to live.”	stoicism
7,276	“Like a problem, time is nothing but a shadow of thought.”	stoicism
7,277	“A still person has the ability to stop, look at a news story or another person’s arguments, and ask objective questions without emotional overreaction or assumptions of ill intent. One is centered, rational, and respected; the other is frantic, unhappy, and intellectually stagnant. Don’t be the latter.”	stoicism
7,278	“Really, doesn't everything make sense? There are, of course, things from which we more or less recover, although some of them are too harsh even for saints. But that is no reason to accuse God. Even if there are reasons to doubt him, the fact that he did not arrange the world like a well-ordered parlor is not one of them. It rather speaks in his favor. This used to be much better understood.”	stoicism
7,279	“A surprising number of people believe that other people can hurt their feelings.”	stoicism
7,280	“The problem with pleasure is that it needs to be intermittent in order to retain its pleasantness.”	stoicism
7,281	“Some people are lucky to no longer be, and some are unlucky to still be, alive.”	stoicism
7,282	“Appreciating what you have is the best cure for missing what you have lost.”	stoicism
7,283	“For some reason, there is this façade that life should be full of happiness and without its suffering. Which, actually makes us suffer even more. Because when we get sad or something bad happens, we do not only feel bad about the thing itself but we also feel bad because our life is not the way it is supposed to be. Not realizing suffering and sadness is just a part of life and they are inevitable.”	stoicism
7,284	“You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.”	stoicism
7,285	“A truth whispered is not less truthful. And an untruth shouted is not less untruthful.”	stoicism
7,286	“Destroying your mirrors leaves your facial blemishes intact.”	stoicism
7,287	“Unless you learn your lesson, it will keep hurting. Not only it will never stop, it will also keep increasing the amount, so you won’t get used to it.”	stoicism
7,288	“You are indeed a man of sorrows and have suffered much...pray be seated now, here on this chair, and let us leave our sorrows, bitter though they are, locked up in our own hearts, for weeping is cold comfort and does little good.”	stoicism
7,289	“...but if you think that only which is your own to be your own, and if you think that what is another’s, as it really is, belongs to another, no man will ever compel you, no man will hinder you, you will never blame any man, you will accuse no man, you will do nothing involuntarily (against your will), no man will harm you, you will have no enemy, for you will not suffer any harm.”	stoicism
7,290	“Let death and exile and every other thing which appears dreadful be daily before your eyes; but most of all death: and you will never think of anything mean nor will you desire anything extravagantly.”	stoicism
7,291	“However one may interpret this culturally, the upshot is the same: people carry within them a great number of wishes to which they react passively and which they hide. Stoicism, in our day, is not strength to overcome wishes, but to hide them. To a patient who, let us say, is interminably rationalizing and justifying this and that, balancing one thing against another as though life were a tremendous market place where all the business is done on paper and tickertape and there are never any goods , I sometimes have the inclination in psychotherapy to shout out, “Don't you ever want anything?” But I don't cry out, for it is not difficult to see that on some level the patient does want a good deal; the trouble is he has formulated and reformulated it, until it is the “rattling of dry bones,” as Eliot puts it. Tendencies have become endemic in our culture for our denial of wishes to be rationalized and accepted with the belief that this denial of the wish will result in its being fulfilled. And whether the reader would disagree with me on this or that detail, our psychological problem is the same: it is necessary for us to help the patient achieve some emotional viability and honesty by bringing out his wishes and his capacity to wish. This is not the end of therapy but it is an essential starting point.”	stoicism
7,292	“Some of our problems came to us; some, we went to them.”	stoicism
7,293	“It is foolish to give up on yourself. And doubly so to do that before everyone has given up on you.”	stoicism
7,294	“When you are unhappy, happy people are disgusting.”	stoicism
7,295	“When you are alone, you should call this tranquility and freedom and when you are with many you shouldn’t call this a crowd, or trouble or uneasiness but festival and company and contentedly accept it.”	stoicism
7,296	“Destroying your mirrors hides your ugliness or facial blemishes from only you.”	stoicism
7,297	“Fools refuse to truly believe that a thing can be both delicious or pleasurable … and harmful.”	stoicism
7,298	“99.99% of fools deny their foolishness. The rest underestimate it.”	stoicism
7,299	“When conversing, some people regularly stop talking, not to listen, but to rest their tongues.”	stoicism
7,300	“Rubaiyat Revină-n glasul meu persanul vers Spre a ne aminti că timpul-i un divers Mod de-a urzi avide visuri vane, În taine risipite-n univers. Din nou să spună că țărână-i focul, Țărână-i trupul, și că asta-i jocul: Viața mea și-a ta sunt râu ce curge Necontenit și repede-n tot locul. Și că impunătorul monument Zidit cu trudă, din trufie, lent, Un vânt fugar e numai, că-n lumina Lui Dumnezeu un veac e un moment. ... Te rog, persană lună, să revii, Și voi, incerte-apusuri aurii. Azi e ieri. Nu ește decât ceilalți. Tărână-i chipul lor. Cu morții-învii.”	stoicism
7,301	“Some of the people who we think care that we hate them do not even care that there are people who love them.”	stoicism
7,302	“Sometimes you find yourself so grateful that a prayer of yours was not answered that you pray that it be ignored. Just in case it is on the waiting list of prayers to be answered.”	stoicism
7,303	“A desired thing often comes with seeds of at least one desire.”	stoicism
7,304	“How does a person deal with all the heartache and tragedy that fills their life without becoming insane or committing suicide?”	stoicism
7,305	“Admitting that their child is, or can be, more educated than them is the closest most parents are willing to get to admitting that their child is, or can be, smarter or wiser than them.”	stoicism
7,306	“Poverty is greatly exaggerated by sanity.”	stoicism
7,307	“We get a taste of death, not when we’re asleep, but when we awake.”	stoicism
7,308	“Like great ecologists, great pessimists make us see the beauty of death.”	stoicism
7,309	“We subconsciously wish that all of the things we hate but our enemies love were harmful.”	stoicism
7,310	“No man is good by chance. Virtue is something which must be learned.”	stoicism
7,311	“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”	stoicism
7,312	“For I am not everlasting, but a human being, a part of the whole as an hour is a part of the day. Like an hour I must come, and like an hour pass away.”	stoicism
7,313	“A fool’s plans are entertainment for the wise.”	stoicism

7,214

“Developing the extremely rare attitude of not minding how life is happening is a billion times better than prolonging your life, even if by a trillion years.”

stoicism

7,215

“There is a switch in the air tonight. It’s not suffocating, like breakups all those years ago, but clean and clear. He does not want me anymore so I tilt my head, take a breath and say, “Okay. I understand.” It’s calm now. My heart didn’t break, it kept on beating like a stoic marching forward without looking back, and I will be a writer now. I love so many people, still. I think I will write about them forever.”

stoicism

7,216

“Some people would be ashamed of driving the cars, or living in the houses, some people are showing off.”

stoicism

7,217

“You have two essential tasks in life: to be a good person and to pursue the occupation that you love. Everything else is a waste of energy and a squandering of your potential.”

stoicism

7,218

“We all die having lived a full life, even those who die while they are being born.”

stoicism

7,219

“Anxiety is the shadow of what we do not want to lose.”

stoicism

7,220

“To plan is to hope … without feeling passive.”

stoicism

7,221

“Being grateful for the shade of a tree is not nearly as honourable as planting a tree.”

stoicism

7,222

“It takes selfishness to stop someone from killing themself.”

stoicism

7,223

“To live is to owe life to die.”

stoicism

7,224

“It is impossible to separate the art of living from the art of dying, because to be living is to be dying.”

stoicism

7,225

“A suicide attempt is an act of fighting for one’s death.”

stoicism

7,226

“Death is freedom from life.”

stoicism

7,227

“Not complaining is sometimes a show off of tolerance or patience.”

stoicism

7,228

“The ability to utter wise words is not exclusive to the wise.”

stoicism

7,229

“Pleasure is often felt through the tongue or genitals as an attempt to distract oneself from the pain one is feeling through the heart.”

stoicism

7,230

“To chase pleasure is to be chased by pain.”

stoicism

7,231

“Sunglasses are all too often used to hide shyness … or unhappiness.”

stoicism

7,232

“A thing named, misnamed, unnamed, or renamed is still itself.”

stoicism

7,233

“To give something or someone your attention is to give it or them a portion of your life.”

stoicism

7,234

“Life sometimes shows kindheartedness by not handing us the success or fame we want, until we have matured enough to be able to handle it.”

stoicism

7,235

“Being patient with a fool requires one not to be one.”

stoicism

7,236

“Unhappiness and the like often inspire us to perform random acts of unkindness.”

stoicism

7,237

“A truth is not any less truthful, when it is said by someone who did not discover, or does not understand, it.”

stoicism

7,238

“A long life is a curse if you have a short temper.”

stoicism

7,239

“Slavery often masquerades as freedom.”

stoicism

7,240

“The person you are mad at for being late could be late.”

stoicism

7,241

“We prefer ourselves into unhappiness.”

stoicism

7,242

“Arrogance gives confidence … a bad name.”

stoicism

7,243

“Because of things such as arrogance, alcohol, and promiscuity, some people are each a legend in the unmaking.”

stoicism

7,244

“There is usually at least one person praying for a situation, or an outcome, that is the exact opposite of the one someone or some people are praying for.”

stoicism

7,245

“Living is the outside of dying.”

stoicism

7,246

“You have not yet reaped the sweetest fruits of meditation, if you still do not meditate only to meditate.”

stoicism

7,247

“You can look unhappy but feel the opposite. Or vice versa.”

stoicism

7,248

“It is humanly impossible to be unhappy while you are dancing or laughing willingly.”

stoicism

7,249

“Some of the things we are trying to pray away were caused by some of our answered prayers.”

stoicism

7,250

“Asia and Europe are corners in the Universe; every sea, a drop in the Universe; Mount Athos, a clod of earth in the Universe; every instant of time, a pin-prick of eternity. All things are petty, easily changed, vanishing away. All things come from that other world, starting from that common governing principle, or else are secondary consequences of it.”

stoicism

7,251

“Soon you will be dead and none of it will matter”

stoicism

7,252

“The most fruitful breaks are often those we are or were forced to take by life.”

stoicism

7,253

“It is a curse to be childish, but a blessing to be childlike.”

stoicism

7,254

“Remind yourself that what you love is mortal … at the very moment you are taking joy in something, present yourself with the opposite impressions. What harm is it, just when you are kissing your little child, to say: Tomorrow you will die, or to your friend similarly: Tomorrow one of us will go away, and we shall not see one another any more?”

stoicism

7,255

“If you haven’t learned something From periods of suffering, If you haven’t wrung the juices Of your own pain and drank them For your own nourishment, You have wasted your experience And missed the chance To expand the capacity For being stronger the next time That these seasons arrive at your door.”

stoicism

7,256

“You owe it to yourself and to the world to actively engage with the brief moment you have with this planet. You cannot retreat exclusively into ideas. You must contribute.”

stoicism

7,257

“Tell us your secrets.’ [23] ‘I refuse, as this is up to me.’ ‘I will put you in chains.’ ‘What’s that you say, friend? It’s only my leg you will chain, not even God can conquer my will.’ [24] ‘I will throw you into prison.’ ‘Correction – it is my body you will throw there.’ ‘I will behead you.’ ‘Well, when did I ever claim that mine was the only neck that couldn’t be severed?”

stoicism

7,258

“I sacrificed much to be where I am today, yet I will sacrifice much more to get to where I need to be someday.”

stoicism

7,259

“Part of patience is knowing your truth and staying loyal to it; you just can’t allow your face to betray what an attack on it actually makes you feel.”

stoicism

7,260

“Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where is all that now? Smoke, dust, legend…or not even a legend. Think of all the examples. And how trivial the things we want so passionately are. An emotional response is a human response, I get it. I too have succumbed to emotion, more often than I care to admit. But it is also a futile response. It isn’t an objectively beneficial response. This is central to Stoicism.”

stoicism

7,261

“A shallow reading of a problem begets outrage; a detailed approach to a problem encourages moderation.”

stoicism

7,262

“Life is a pilgrimage and a struggle. All we have of time is a moment; the universe is in constant flux; our bodies are fragile; our senses grasp so little; our souls are a mist; the future is a fog; and fame is fleeting.”

stoicism

7,263

“Často sa dopúšťa bezprávia aj ten, kto nič nerobí, nielen ten, kto niečo robí.”

stoicism

7,264

“Najlepší spôsob obrany je nepodobať sa tým, čo nám ubližujú.”

stoicism

7,265

“man was given two ears and one mouth for a reason”

stoicism

7,266

“Halleck came from people who regarded a slight change of facial expression as adequate to convey the pain of a severed limb.”

stoicism

7,267

“Stoicism is designed to be medicine for the soul.”

stoicism

7,268

“Be someone who is cool under pressure. Value serenity instead of outrage. It seems that our culture is moving in the wrong direction here. If you are blessed enough to not be on social media, you might be surprised to learn that the angriest, most passionate public figures are rewarded with the most clicks and biggest audiences. Our culture has begun to confuse passion with substance, reward the loudest and angriest voices, and thus incentivize behavior wholly at odds with Stoic wisdom. The number of decibels your voice hits as you scream about how right you are is not necessarily an indicator of how much sense you are making. As a society founded on reason and Western Enlightenment ideals, we must hold ourselves to a higher standard. We have to collectively stop allowing emotion and passion to pass for reason and factual debate.”

stoicism

7,269

“The media’s goal is to literally challenge your ability to be still. A tough American, intent on improving upon their current self, is not tricked into an emotional reaction by these headlines. You do not write an angry tweet, you do not hurl an insult. You are cool and measured, and skeptical. You are curious what the agenda of the journalist might be and what facts or context they might be leaving out. You seek out a different story on the same topic from an opposing view, and you find out that many of the claims made in the original story were convincingly debunked. And just like that, you are a Zen master of stillness and Stoicism.”

stoicism

7,270

“See? You're using the stoic glacier method." "Remind me, what's the stoic glacier method?" "It's the slow process of shaping someone's behavior by force of one's own personal stoicism.”

stoicism

7,271

“There was no meaning in why he was here, but he was, and that was enough.”

stoicism

7,272

“I have, I hold whatever of mine I have ever had. There is no reason for you to suppose me conquered and yourself my conqueror. It is your fortune which has overcome mine. As for those fleeting possessions which change their owners, I know not where they are; what belongs to myself is with me, and ever will be.”

stoicism

7,273

“Si len úbohá dušička nesúca mŕtvolu,” ako vravel Epiktetos.”

stoicism

7,274

“Growth is often the cause or the result of pain.”

stoicism

7,275

“Education teaches us how to make a living, not how to live.”

stoicism

7,276

“Like a problem, time is nothing but a shadow of thought.”

stoicism

7,277

“A still person has the ability to stop, look at a news story or another person’s arguments, and ask objective questions without emotional overreaction or assumptions of ill intent. One is centered, rational, and respected; the other is frantic, unhappy, and intellectually stagnant. Don’t be the latter.”

stoicism

7,278

“Really, doesn't everything make sense? There are, of course, things from which we more or less recover, although some of them are too harsh even for saints. But that is no reason to accuse God. Even if there are reasons to doubt him, the fact that he did not arrange the world like a well-ordered parlor is not one of them. It rather speaks in his favor. This used to be much better understood.”

stoicism

7,279

“A surprising number of people believe that other people can hurt their feelings.”

stoicism

7,280

“The problem with pleasure is that it needs to be intermittent in order to retain its pleasantness.”

stoicism

7,281

“Some people are lucky to no longer be, and some are unlucky to still be, alive.”

stoicism

7,282

“Appreciating what you have is the best cure for missing what you have lost.”

stoicism

7,283

“For some reason, there is this façade that life should be full of happiness and without its suffering. Which, actually makes us suffer even more. Because when we get sad or something bad happens, we do not only feel bad about the thing itself but we also feel bad because our life is not the way it is supposed to be. Not realizing suffering and sadness is just a part of life and they are inevitable.”

stoicism

7,284

“You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.”

stoicism

7,285

“A truth whispered is not less truthful. And an untruth shouted is not less untruthful.”

stoicism

7,286

“Destroying your mirrors leaves your facial blemishes intact.”

stoicism

7,287

“Unless you learn your lesson, it will keep hurting. Not only it will never stop, it will also keep increasing the amount, so you won’t get used to it.”

stoicism

7,288

“You are indeed a man of sorrows and have suffered much...pray be seated now, here on this chair, and let us leave our sorrows, bitter though they are, locked up in our own hearts, for weeping is cold comfort and does little good.”

stoicism

7,289

“...but if you think that only which is your own to be your own, and if you think that what is another’s, as it really is, belongs to another, no man will ever compel you, no man will hinder you, you will never blame any man, you will accuse no man, you will do nothing involuntarily (against your will), no man will harm you, you will have no enemy, for you will not suffer any harm.”

stoicism

7,290

“Let death and exile and every other thing which appears dreadful be daily before your eyes; but most of all death: and you will never think of anything mean nor will you desire anything extravagantly.”

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“However one may interpret this culturally, the upshot is the same: people carry within them a great number of wishes to which they react passively and which they hide. Stoicism, in our day, is not strength to overcome wishes, but to hide them. To a patient who, let us say, is interminably rationalizing and justifying this and that, balancing one thing against another as though life were a tremendous market place where all the business is done on paper and tickertape and there are never any goods , I sometimes have the inclination in psychotherapy to shout out, “Don't you ever want anything?” But I don't cry out, for it is not difficult to see that on some level the patient does want a good deal; the trouble is he has formulated and reformulated it, until it is the “rattling of dry bones,” as Eliot puts it. Tendencies have become endemic in our culture for our denial of wishes to be rationalized and accepted with the belief that this denial of the wish will result in its being fulfilled. And whether the reader would disagree with me on this or that detail, our psychological problem is the same: it is necessary for us to help the patient achieve some emotional viability and honesty by bringing out his wishes and his capacity to wish. This is not the end of therapy but it is an essential starting point.”

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“Some of our problems came to us; some, we went to them.”

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“It is foolish to give up on yourself. And doubly so to do that before everyone has given up on you.”

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“When you are unhappy, happy people are disgusting.”

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“When you are alone, you should call this tranquility and freedom and when you are with many you shouldn’t call this a crowd, or trouble or uneasiness but festival and company and contentedly accept it.”

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“Destroying your mirrors hides your ugliness or facial blemishes from only you.”

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“Fools refuse to truly believe that a thing can be both delicious or pleasurable … and harmful.”

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“99.99% of fools deny their foolishness. The rest underestimate it.”

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“When conversing, some people regularly stop talking, not to listen, but to rest their tongues.”

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“Rubaiyat Revină-n glasul meu persanul vers Spre a ne aminti că timpul-i un divers Mod de-a urzi avide visuri vane, În taine risipite-n univers. Din nou să spună că țărână-i focul, Țărână-i trupul, și că asta-i jocul: Viața mea și-a ta sunt râu ce curge Necontenit și repede-n tot locul. Și că impunătorul monument Zidit cu trudă, din trufie, lent, Un vânt fugar e numai, că-n lumina Lui Dumnezeu un veac e un moment. ... Te rog, persană lună, să revii, Și voi, incerte-apusuri aurii. Azi e ieri. Nu ește decât ceilalți. Tărână-i chipul lor. Cu morții-învii.”

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“Some of the people who we think care that we hate them do not even care that there are people who love them.”

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“Sometimes you find yourself so grateful that a prayer of yours was not answered that you pray that it be ignored. Just in case it is on the waiting list of prayers to be answered.”

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“A desired thing often comes with seeds of at least one desire.”

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“How does a person deal with all the heartache and tragedy that fills their life without becoming insane or committing suicide?”

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“Admitting that their child is, or can be, more educated than them is the closest most parents are willing to get to admitting that their child is, or can be, smarter or wiser than them.”

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“Poverty is greatly exaggerated by sanity.”

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“We get a taste of death, not when we’re asleep, but when we awake.”

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“Like great ecologists, great pessimists make us see the beauty of death.”

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“We subconsciously wish that all of the things we hate but our enemies love were harmful.”

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“No man is good by chance. Virtue is something which must be learned.”

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“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”

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“For I am not everlasting, but a human being, a part of the whole as an hour is a part of the day. Like an hour I must come, and like an hour pass away.”

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“A fool’s plans are entertainment for the wise.”

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