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Stoicism Quotes

Let these timeless words inspire you to embrace a Stoic mindset, finding serenity amidst chaos, strength in adversity, and profound joy in the simple act of existence. 

Welcome the wisdom of the Stoics into your life and let it transform your perception of the world and your place within it.

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

  • Marcus Aurelius
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2. Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

  • Seneca

3. Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.

  • Jim Rohn 
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4. When someone is grounded in life, they shouldn't have to look outside themselves for approval.

  • Epictetus

5. All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

  • Sophocles 
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6. To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.

  • Seneca

7. Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

  • Plutarch
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8. He who has a why to live, can bear almost any how.

  • Friedrich Nietzsche

9. Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

  • Marcus Aurelius
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10. He has the most who is content with the least.

  • Diogenes

11. The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

  • Epictetus
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12. True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

  • Seneca 

13. The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

  • Marcus Aurelius
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14. When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

  • Viktor E. Frankl

15. Don't seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well.

  • Epictetus
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16. Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

  • Seneca
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