508 Quotes About Stoicism

It is humbling to realize that what you hate (the most) about someone is actually what they love (the most) about themselves.

The thing whose acquisition ‘made’ you happy need not be stolen, lost, or broken for ‘it’ to make you unhappy.

There is a correlation between how hard life seems to us and how easy we expected it to be.

Happiness prefers to live inside those who do not have preferences, because it never gets evicted there.

Killing a person does not lead to nearly as much pain as creating a human being.

Our inability to imagine the length of the rest of existence magnifies our problems.

The pursuit of happiness is one of the most common symptoms of intellectual immaturity.

Like happiness, unhappiness usually springs from a comparison.

The happiest people are not those who have the most, but those who are the most grateful for what they have.