508 Quotes About Stoicism

We always have a choice as to, not what we hear, but what we listen to.

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.

An action is at least a billion times less difficult to choose than a reaction.

Unlike existing, living requires effort.

It is human to be angry, but childish to be controlled by anger.

A man whose mind has completely left childhood behind would not be surprised if he were to walk in on his wife having sex with her father … or with his mother.

Growth is often the cause or the result of pain.

Life is happening neither to nor for but through us.

You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts, so that if someone says, "What are your thinking about?" you can respond at once (and truthfully) that you are thinking this or thinking that.