Stoicism Quotes

“The last freedom is the freedom to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.”

“To be a real man is to be unattached—not to be hustled by things, not to be owned by them, not to be afraid of them.”

“Control what you can control. I can control my emotions, my concentration, my effort, my intensity.”

“When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.”

“The descent to Hades is the same from every place.”

“I ain't worrying 'bout nothin'.”

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

“Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile.”

“We must not let our spirits give way to grief.”

“For it is not death, that is a fearful thing, but a shameful death.”

“Why then, O mortals, do you seek happiness outside yourselves, when it lies within?”

“One learns to live with sorrow.”

“What else are tragedies but the ordeals of people who have come to value externals, tricked out in tragic verse?”

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

“There’s no such thing as a problem. There are only situations. It’s all in how you look at it.”

“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.”

“So, if you are master of yourself, you will be in possession of that which you will never wish to lose and which Fortune cannot take from you.”

“So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan... approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.”

“I don't mind a reasonable amount of trouble.”

“I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.”