When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn’t have to look outside themselves for approval.
Epictetus
You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.
Greg McKeown
We must take a higher view of all things, and bear with them more easily: it better becomes a man to scoff at life than to lament over it.
Seneca
Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Be stoic: Just do the right thing. Just keep going.
Maxime Lagacé
Not to assume it’s impossible because you find it hard. But to recognize that if it’s humanly possible, you can do it too.
Marcus Aurelius
Learn to detach yourself from the chaos of the battlefield.
Robert Greene
Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
Man conquers the world by conquering himself.
Zeno of Citium
An hour of deeply contemplating your own moral failures will leave you feeling much more forgiving of the foibles of others.
@TheStoicEmperor
What upsets people is not things themselves, but their judgements about these things.
Epictetus
Effortless stoicism will come when you have dismantled everything in your mind that produces reactions.
James Pierce
Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.
James Allen
You are scared of dying—and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different than being dead?
Seneca
I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived – and dying I will tend to later.
Epictetus
Don’t let jerks live rent-free in your head.
Sam Altman
He has the most who is content with the least
Diogenes
We are quick to forget that just being alive is an extraordinary piece of good luck, a remote event, a chance occurrence of monstrous proportions.
Nicholas Nassim Taleb
Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.
Epictetus
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
M. Scott Peck
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Seneca
Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.
Marcus Aurelius
What are the secret of success? -one word answer: “rational”.
Charlie Munger
The limit is not the sky. The limit is the mind.
Wim Hof
It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it.
Seneca
Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?
Socrates
Is there such a thing as a cheerful pessimist? That’s what I am.
Charlie Munger
Many men will meet me who are drunkards, lustful, ungrateful, greedy, and excited by the frenzy of ambition.
Seneca
The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.
Seneca
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Epictetus
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.
Steve Jobs
Stoicism teaches how to keep a calm and rational mind no matter what happens to you and it helps you understand and focus on what you can control and not worry about and accept what you can’t control.
Jonas Salzgeber
The tranquility that comes when you stop caring what they say. Or think, or do. Only what you do.
Marcus Aurelius
I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
Socrates
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
Failure and deprivation are the best educators and purifiers.
Albert Einstein
Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Epictetus
Be a master of the mind, not mastered by the mind.
Zen proverb
To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.
Seneca
To be stoic is not to be emotionless, but to remain unaffected by your emotions.
James Pierce
To be even minded is the greatest virtue.
Heraclitus
You amplify everything you react to.
@TheStoicEmperor
Inwardly, we ought to be different in every respect, but our outward dress should blend in with the crowd.
Seneca
Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.
Naval Ravikant