It's embarrassing that after 45 years of research and study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other. #stoicism #life #philosophy
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"The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances." #stoicism #life #philosophy
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." #stoicism #life #philosophy
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark. #stoicism #life #philosophy
"It is a hard thing to leave any deeply routined life, even if you hate it." #stoicism #life #philosophy
"Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts." #stoicism #life #philosophy
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." #stoicism #life #philosophy
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. #stoicism #life #philosophy
A man is made by his beliefs. As he believes. So he becomes. #stoicism #life #philosophy
"It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor." #stoicism #life #philosophy
If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello. #stoicism #life #philosophy
"The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today." #stoicism #life #philosophy
Man needs a little madness, or else he never dares cut the rope and be free. #stoicism #life #philosophy
Repetition is not repetition. The same action makes you feel something completely different by the end. #stoicism #life #philosophy
"Freedom isn't secured by filling up on your heart's desire but by removing your desire." #stoicism #life #philosophy
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence" #stoicism #life #philosophy
"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die." #stoicism #life #philosophy
"No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself." #stoicism #life #philosophy
"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day." #stoicism #life #philosophy
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is Our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. #stoicism #life #philosophy
"There is never any need to get worked up about things you can't control." #stoicism #life #philosophy
"Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know." #stoicism #life #philosophy
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. #stoicism #life #philosophy
"How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?" #stoicism #life #philosophy
"It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it." #stoicism #life #philosophy
"It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it." #stoicism #life #philosophy
"A new world is only a new mind." #stoicism #life #philosophy
"Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions, not outside." #stoicism #life #philosophy
"It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own." #stoicism #life #philosophy
"We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking." #stoicism #life #philosophy
"Whatever time has passed is owned by death... we die every day." #stoicism #life #philosophy
"If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable." #stoicism #life #philosophy
When we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselves. #stoicism #life #philosophy
"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once." #stoicism #life #philosophy
"Fortune sides with him who dares." #stoicism #life #philosophy
"No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it." #stoicism #life #philosophy