Stoicism Quotes
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Stoicism Quotes
“We are hurried, not by what is happening, but by what we are desiring.”
“The older you are, and the faster you walk, the crazier you look.”
“Small talk is one of the most common symptoms of small-mindedness.”
“Every second is a step away from our mothers’ wombs towards our own tombs.”
“I value my time so much that undressing is the only thing I am willing to do for sex.”
“To live is to owe life to die.”
“Those who died quietly asleep are not less dead than those who were killed awake by bombs.”
“No one is too old to live another day, or too young to die today.”
“We lose a significant portion of our lives attending ceremonies for people who have lost theirs.”
“Paying someone to do something on our behalf is the closest we can get to buying time.”
“Life cannot, not even for a millisecond, remain exactly how it is.”
“We cannot really save time. We can merely avoid wasting it.”
“The person you are mad at for being late could be late.”
“We have never tried to do most of the things we are dead sure we cannot do.”
“We need not reply or even listen to people who are talking about—not to—us.”
“Like great ecologists, great pessimists make us see the beauty of death.”
“Living is the outside of dying.”
“In Tsurani culture, forgiveness was simply a less shameful form of weakness than capitulation.”
“I lost myself, but believe me, I found a version of myself that no one could have imagined.”
“Some of the things we are trying to pray away were caused by some of our answered prayers.”
“It is doubly foolish to underuse what you have overpaid for.”
“Like happiness, unhappiness usually springs from a comparison.”
“We always have a choice as to, not what we hear, but what we listen to.”