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Here are some of my favorite stoicism quotes
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
"Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our actions."
Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.
People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Which is why it is essential that we not respond impulsively to impressions; take a moment before reacting, and you will find it easier to maintain control.
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. Think constantly on the changes of the elements into each other, for such thoughts wash away the dust of earthly life.
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them.
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. 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.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue.
Well-being is realized by small steps, but is truly no small thing.
We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.
If we were to measure what is good by how much pleasure it brings, nothing would be better than self-control- if we were to measure what is to be avoided by its pain, nothing would be more painful than lack of self-control.
From good people you’ll learn good, but if you mingle with the bad you’ll destroy such soul as you had.
We will train both soul and body when we accustom ourselves to cold, heat, thirst, hunger, scarcity of food, hardness of bed, abstaining from pleasures, and enduring pains.