A collection of some of my favorite quotes, mostly from the Stoic masters
“Your mind will take shape of what you frequently hold in thought, for the human spirit is colored by such impressions.”
Marcus Aurelius
“If you find something very difficult to achieve yourself, don’t imagine it impossible–for anything possible and proper for another person can be achieved as easily by you.”
Marcus Aurelius
“We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application—not far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech—and learn them so well that words become works.”
Seneca
“The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own….”
Epictetus
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates
“A book is medicine for the soul.”
Latin proverb
“I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.”
Cicero
“Well-being is realized by small steps, but is truly no small thing.”
Zeno
“Amongst the virtues some are primary, some are subordinate to these. The following are priority: wisdom, courage, justice, temperance”
Seneca
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life”
Seneca
“You have to assemble your life yourself, action by action”
Marcus Aurelius