Stoicism Quotes

"You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength " "Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so." "Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame." "The thing that matters is how you lose. I’m not crying. My friends should not cry." "Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead." "Never complain and never explain" "The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way." "The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing." "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." "To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die." "A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control" "Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears " "It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are." "To do nothing is also a good remedy" "We suffer more often in imagination than in reality" "To lose patience is to lose the battle" "Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm" "Stoicism is about the domestication of emotions, not their elimination" "Life, if well lived, is long enough." "Man is affected not by events but by the view he takes of them."