How To Be A Stoic Quotes

#1. A Stoic is a Buddhist with attitude, one who says "f*** you" to fate.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. So the life of a philosopher extends widely: he is not confined by the same boundary as are others. He alone is free from the laws that limit the human race, and all ages serve him as though he were a god.

Seneca.

#3. Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.

Bertrand Russell

#4. D. H. Lawrence used to observe on our national character: "The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted." Women

Piper Kerman

#5. She didn't shed a tear. Angels don't cry.

Hiroshi Sakurazaka

#6. I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two are not one.

Daphne Guinness

#7. She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.

Gillian Flynn

#8. The stoic contemplates fallen leaves; the epicure rakes them into a loveseat.

Bauvard

#9. FOR EVERY STOIC WAS A STOIC BUT WHERE IN CHRISTENDOM IS THE CHRISTIAN?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.

Seneca The Younger

#11. [Philosophers] have come to envy the philologist and the mathematician, and they have taken over all the inessential elements in those studies - with the result that they know more about devoting care and attention to their speech than about devoting such attention to their lives.

Seneca.

#12. It wasn't even one of those stoic pimples that goes quietly when you pop it; this one was cystic and painful and had roots that seemed to extend into my brain.

Mindy Kaling

#13. Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.

Epicurus

#14. Her stoic attitude contributed to the air of mystery surrounding her, long before she had any secrets to keep.

Isabel Allende

#15. To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to live, not just to like how it makes you feel.

Julian Baggini