508 Quotes About Stoicism
- Author Bill Bowerman
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Engineers can prove that a bumblebee, with its heavy body and little bitty wings, can't fly. But nobody tells the bumblebees ... and they fly just fine.
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- Author Cave Man
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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.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Some people are lucky to no longer be, and some are unlucky to still be, alive.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Some of our problems came to us; some, we went to them.
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- Author Democrates
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The universe is change, and life mere opinion.
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- Author Nathaniel Hawthorne
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At the crisis of my fever, I besought Hollingsworth to let nobody else enter the room, but continually to make me sensible of his own presence… then he should be the witness how courageously I would encounter the worst. It still impresses me almost a matter of regret, that I did not die then, when I had tolerably made up my mind to do it
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- Author Homer
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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.
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- Author Epictetus
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You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.
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- Author Epicetus
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...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.
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