stoic

All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried.
-Marcus Aurelius

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
-Epictetus

Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.
-Epictetus

I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
-Epictetus

Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
-Marcus Aurelius

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
-Marcus Aurelius

It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
-Epictetus

He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!
– Seneca

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
– Seneca

In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life’s purpose.
-Epictetus