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Quotes tagged ‘Stoic’

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My idea of the modern Stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, amazon.com

We can't let it get to us, otherwise the terrorists win.

— Oren Peli, Micah, Micah Sloat, imdb.com

Warriors don’t show their heart until the axe reveals it.

— Michael Hirst, Floki, Gustaf Skarsgard, imdb.com

Susan had an earnest soul, a conscience tending to morbidity. In ancient Greece she would have been a Stoic; in the era of the Reformation, a Calvinist; in King Charles's time, a Puritan; but in this nineteenth century, by the very laws of her being, she is a Reformer.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com

Tranquility of the soul is wonderful, as is joyful peace of mind. If only, dear friend, these precious treasures, beautiful and priceless as they are, were not so fragile too.

— Johann Wolfgang Goethe, amazon.com

Poor fool! Imagining everything to be so small, because you are yourself so small.

— Johann Wolfgang Goethe, amazon.com

Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath.

— Johann Wolfgang Goethe, amazon.com

Feras non culpes quod vitari non potest (what can't be cured must be endured).

— Horace, amazon.com

The Master sees times as they are without trying to control them. She lets them go their own way and resides at the center of the circle.

— Lao Tzu, amazon.com

Dying on purpose.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn, amazon.com

When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

— Randall Jarrell, amazon.com

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