Stoic Wisdom

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Each day provides its own gifts.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

Loss is nothing else but change,and change is Natures delight.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Practice yourself, for heavens sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonourable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.