From Haruki Murakami: “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
Tag Archives: stoicism
Quote of the day 08/15/25
From Marcus Aurelius: “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Quote of the day 04/23/25
From William Shakespeare: “At Christmas I no more desire a roseThan wish a snow in May’s new-fangled mirth;But like of each thing that in season grows.”
Quote of the day 04/08/25
From John Milton: “Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part; do thou but thine.”
Quote of the day 02/03/25
From Epictetus: “Two rules we should always have ready,-that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.”
Quote of the day 01/25/25
From Marcus Aurelius: “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
Quote of the day 01/24/25
From Marcus Aurelius: “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Quote of the day 01/23/25
From Marcus Aurelius: “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
Quote of the day 12/15/24
From Marcus Aurelius: “Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things that exist;Continue reading “Quote of the day 12/15/24”
Quote of the day 11/18/24
From Marcus Aurelius: “We should remember that even Nature’s inadvertence has its own charm, its own attractiveness. The way loaves of bread split open on top in the oven; the ridges are just by-products of the baking, and yet pleasing, somehow: they rouse our appetite without our knowing why.Or how ripe figs begin to burst.AndContinue reading “Quote of the day 11/18/24”
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