“ We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Well, that's what I still think, but I am in a rut at work--I hate my job,' I said, allowing my emotions to find words. Luke Lively
“ In order to get over the ethical difficulties presented by the naive naturalism of many parts of those Scriptures, in the divine authority of which he firmly believed, Philo borrowed from the Stoics (… Thomas Henry Huxley
“ A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things. Jenny Offill
“ But if God and immortality be repudiated, what is left? That is the question usually thrown at the atheist's head. The orthodox believer likes to think that nothing is left. That, however, is because… Julian Huxley
“ And here lies the essential difference between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility, not the excitable cheer that positive thinkers u… Oliver Burkeman
“ For the Stoics, then, our judgments about the world are all that we can control, but also all that we need to control in order to be happy; tranquility results from replacing our irrational judgments… Oliver Burkeman
“ Man, what are you talking about? Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus himself can overpower. Epictetus
