A Stoic Resurrection

"...for if we could be satisfied with anything, we should have been satisfied long ago; nor do we reflect how pleasant it is to demand nothing, how noble it is to be contented and not to be dependent upon Fortune." — Seneca

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“Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.” ― Marcus Aurelius

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"Courage is grace under pressure." ― Ernest Hemingway

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"Devote the rest of your life to making progress." — Epictetus

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“No man is free who is not master of himself.” ― Epictetus

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"Money has not yet made anyone rich." — Seneca

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“To seek the perfection of the warrior’s spirit is the only task worthy of our manhood.” ― Don Juan (Carlos Castaneda, Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan)

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“Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time. The twining strands of fate wove both of them together: your own existence and the things that happen to you.” ― Marcus Aurelius

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“Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.” ― Epictetus

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“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” ― Seneca

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“The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge.”
— Aristotle

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“Learning to see a challenge as an opportunity - that’s the beginning of wisdom.” ― Jordan B. Peterson

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“The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.” ― Epictetus

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"Don't be overheard complaining... not even to yourself." ― Marcus Aurelius

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“While we are postponing, life speeds by.” ― Seneca

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“Constant awareness that everything is born from change. The knowledge that there is nothing nature loves more than to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it.” ― Marcus Aurelius

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“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell

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“To be alive is to be in trouble - ethically and existentially.” ― Jordan B. Peterson

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“Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.” ― Epictetus

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“Live, seeking God, for there can be no life without God.” ― Leo Tolstoy

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“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.” ― Marcus Aurelius

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“Listening not to me but to the Logos, it is wise to acknowledge that all things are one.” ― Heraclitus

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“The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say “yes” to suffering before you can transcend it.” ― Eckhart Tolle

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“Dear God, if only we would not die before we have been given the opportunity to show that we are worthy of transmuting all we say into deeds.” ― Nikos Kazantzakis

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“Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.” ― Epictetus

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“You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.” ― Joseph Campbell

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“Man conquers the world by conquering himself.” ― Zeno

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“Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.” ― Nikos Kazantzakis

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“Those who say: “No, the way to glory leads straight through the land of toil and self-sacrifice,” hear their words resound in almost empty lecture-halls.” ― Cicero

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“There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.” ― Miyamoto Musashi

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“Disillusion is the prerequisite to redemption.” ― Jordan B. Peterson

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“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“When setbacks come, we respond by working twice as hard.” ― Ryan Holiday

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“Concentrate every minute on doing what’s in front of you.” ― Marcus Aurelius

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“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” ― Pericles

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“Excellence withers without an adversary.” ― Seneca

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“Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions — not outside.” ― Marcus Aurelius

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“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone." ― Alan Watts

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“Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.” ― Epictetus

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“Everything that belongs to the body is a stream, and what belongs to the soul is a dream and vapor, and life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion. What then can guide a man? One thing and only one, philosophy.” ― Marcus Aurelius

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“The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.” ― Marcus Aurelius

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“I believe that the immortal gods implanted souls in human bodies to provide overseers for the earth who would contemplate the heavenly order and imitate it in the moderation and consistency of their lives.” ― Cicero

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“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.” ― Viktor E. Frankl

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“The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.” ― Epictetus

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“Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper.” ― David Lynch

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"The Stoic philosopher is the man who has liberated himself from fear. He’s not afraid of death, he’s not afraid of pain, he’s not afraid of other people’s dismissal as a fool. The only thing he cares about is that he should meet his moral obligations.” ― Michael Sugrue

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“Have ye no fear of death. For indeed nothing that is evil can happen to any good man, either living or dead; nor will the care of him ever be neglected by the immortal gods.” ― Cicero

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"The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately." ― Seneca

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“We treat the body rigorously so that it will not be disobedient to the mind.” ― Seneca

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“When fortune smiles and everything is going to our heart’s desire, it’s our duty to abstain from pride, disdain and arrogance. It is as sure a sign of weakness to be spoiled by success as to be crushed by misfortune.” ― Cicero

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“I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“If you seek tranquility, do less. Or, more accurately, do what’s essential—what the logos of a social being requires, and in the requisite way. Which brings a double satisfaction: to do less, better.” ― Marcus Aurelius

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"Our lives are defined by the positive impact we have on others." ― Jeff Booth

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“The brain is the most powerful weapon in the world.” ― David Goggins

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“I shall take the more pains to uncover the fountains of philosophy, from which all my eloquence has taken its rise.” ― Cicero

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“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” ― Marcus Aurelius

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“Alas, we see the sins of others better than our own! This is why a master most easily corrects his pupils by mimicking their defects.” ― Cicero

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“The questions of the mind are of two kinds: some are connected with thought, others with appetite. Thought is employed in the discovery of truth, appetite impels to action. Let us strive then to employ our thoughts on the noblest objects and to bring our appetites under the sway of reason.” ― Cicero

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“True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient.” ― Seneca

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“Error correction is the basis of all intelligence.” ― Jeff Booth

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“First of all we have to decide what we are to do and what manner of men we wish to be - the most difficult problem in the world.” ― Cicero

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“Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing.” ― Seneca

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“Let us respect, uphold, and maintain the great family of the human race.” ― Cicero

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“All you need are these: certainty of judgment in the present moment; action for the common good in the present moment; and an attitude of gratitude in the present moment for anything that comes your way.” ― Marcus Aurelius

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“Injustice fights with two weapons, force and fraud.” ― Cicero

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“It is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it.” ― Seneca

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“The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.” ― Margaret Atwood

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“There is nothing more praiseworthy, nothing more becoming in a great and noble character than a forgiving, forbearing spirit.” ― Cicero

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“There is no genius without a touch of madness.” ― Seneca

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“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” ― Marcus Aurelius

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“Virtue is beauty and beauty is love, and without love you have no virtue and therefore no order.” ― J. Krishnamurti

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"There is no easy way from the Earth to the stars.” ― Seneca

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“Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.” ― Miyamoto Musashi

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“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work.” ― Chuck Close

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“For the ties of common blood unite men in kindness and love.” ― Cicero

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"A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others." — Confucius

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"We are talking about choice which is the outcome of uncertainty, of confusion, where there is no clarity; then I have to choose, but a mind that is very clear has no choice." ― J. Krishnamurti

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“I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.” ― Buckminster Fuller

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“You must value learning above everything else.” ― Robert Greene

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“Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.” ― Seneca

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“There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with” ― Seneca

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“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.” ― Marcus Aurelius

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“I don’t quit. I may not make it the first time. But I’ll come back.” ― David Goggins

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“If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according to what others think, you will never be rich.” ― Seneca

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“To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.” ― Seneca

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“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.” ― Marcus Aurelius

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“What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.” ― Seneca

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"The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." ― Thucydides

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“The worth of virtue lies in action.” ― Cicero

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“Your mind has to always be clear.” ― David Goggins

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“If you need a witness, be your own.” ― Epictetus

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“Even an action intrinsically right is only just in so far as it is voluntary.” ― Cicero

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“Everything you do - you are choosing to purchase with your life.” ― Ryan Holiday

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“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.” ― Marcus Aurelius

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“Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.” ― Marcus Aurelius

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“I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.” ― Seneca

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“Righteousness shines with a lustre of its own; doubt is the symptom of a vicious purpose.” ― Cicero

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“It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.” ― Seneca

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“Freedom lies in being bold.” ― Robert Frost

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“Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.” ― Marcus Aurelius

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“You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire” ― Seneca

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"Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own." — Marcus Aurelius

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“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.” — Epictetus

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“The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.” — Seneca

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“We begin to lose our hesitation to do immoral things when we lose our hesitation to speak of them.” ― Musonius Rufus

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“Everything is temporary but love. Love outlives us all.” ― R. Queen

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"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." ― John Keats

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