508 Quotes About Stoicism

Most people have given back to life the power to make themselves happy.

Suffering and happiness are not mutually exclusive.

If you have assumed any character beyond your strength, you have both demeaned yourself ill in that and quitted one which you might have supported.

Equanimity is often mistaken for depression.

Melancholy isn't always a disorder that needs to be cured. It can be a species of intelligent grief which arises when we come face-to-face with the certainty that disappointment is written into the script from the start.

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

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

Destroying your mirrors leaves your facial blemishes intact.

Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.