Stoic Quotes on
Wisdom
Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment; and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses.
Marcus Aurelius
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength
Marcus Aurelius
The present moment is filled with joy and happiness, If you are attentive, you will see it.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Knowing your deepest intention can be your guiding force in the creation of a better life.
Oprah Winfrey
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
Marcus Aurelius
These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even speak of himself or his own merits.
Epictetus
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything inbetween.
Maya Angelou
Decide... whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.
Amelia Earhart
Some things are in out control and others not.
Epictetus
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
Seneca
As a man thinketh, so he is. As he continues to think, so he remains.
James Allen
Life is only available in the present moment.
Thich Nhat Hanh
It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested.
Seneca
Whatever may happen to you, it was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being, and of that which is incident to it.
Marcus Aurelius
But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.
Seneca
Do the one thing that can render you really happy: cast aside and trample under foot all the things that glitter outwardly and are held out to you a by another or as obtainable from another.
Seneca
Of all men, only those who find time for philosophy are at leisure; only they are truly alive; for it is not only their own lifetime they guard well: they add every age to their own.
Seneca
And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is to discern a connection even among things separated by vast distances.
Marcus Aurelius
Be careful to leave your sons and daughters well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
Epictetus
Whoever chafes at the conditions dealt by fate is unskilled in the art of life; whoever bears with them nobly and makes wise use of the results is a man who deserves to be considered good.
Epictetus
The husbandman deals with land; physicians and trainers with the body; the wise man with his own Mind.
Epictetus
The universe, then, is God, of whom the popular gods are manifestations; while legends and myths are allegorical. The soul of man is thus an emanation from the godhead, into whom it will eventually be re-absorbed.
Marcus Aurelius
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Seneca
That which takes effect by chance is not an art.
Seneca
Freedom, you see, is having events go in accordance with our will, never contrary to it.
Epictetus
Is then the fruit of a fig-tree not perfect suddenly and in one hour, and would you possess the fruit of a man's mind in so short a time and so easily?
Epictetus
If the Divine is faithful, he also must be faithful; if free, he also must be free; if beneficent, he also must be beneficent; if magnanimous, he also must be magnanimous. Thus as an imitator of God must he follow Him in every deed and word.
Epictetus
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
Marcus Aurelius
