What Is Stoicism? 🌷

“No one can lose what he doesn’t have…”

“Remember how you judged similar mishaps when they happened to others…”

"You can get rid of many superfluous troubles that depend entirely on your beliefs, and you’ll immediately provide yourself with plenty of mental space." - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 9.32

"...To be sorry we will not be alive a hundred years from now is as foolish as to be sorry we were not alive a hundred years ago." - Montaigne, That to Study Philosophy is to Learn to Die

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Stoic reminder from Seneca: It’s according to opinion that we suffer.

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Stoic reminder from Chuck Chakrapani: You cannot change the past, no matter how recently or how far back something happened. What happened in the past or when it happened is not relevant to your freedom now.

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“We must concern ourselves with the healing of our own lives.”

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"An effective insult requires a kind of cooperation from the victim – a judgment, for example, that the insult matters." - Ward Farnsworth, The Practicing Stoic

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live." - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 12.1

🖊 Stoic reminder: It isn’t perfect wisdom we seek, but progress toward wiser responses to everyday situations and events. More: whatisstoicism.substack.com/p/micro-mornin…

"What is involved in having an excellent character? To use a very out-of-fashion word, it means to be virtuous. In particular it means to be wise, just, courageous and moderate - the four cardinal virtues according to the Stoics." - John Sellars, Lessons in Stoicism

"To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden." - Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 231-232

Stoic reminder from Marcus Aurelius: Death and life, glory and obscurity, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty—all these things come to good and bad people alike, since they are morally neutral in themselves, and this proves that they’re neither good nor bad.

"Nothing can happen to any human outside the experience which is natural to humans...Universal nature has brought you nothing you can't endure." - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.46

"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life." - Seneca, Letters 101.10

Stoic reminder from Kai Whiting: Dying is no evil, nor even a bad thing, because its very existence provides us with a sense of urgency and direction. Death is something that should encourage us to act in ways that we will ultimately find fulfilling.