The Daily Stoic Quotes

When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn’t have to look outside themselves for approval. It snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short of time.” —seneca the underlying message here is that death is not something to be feared.

But it regains its powers if it is set free and relaxed for a while. (from letters from a stoic) 4. Not your average copy, pasted quotes.

If left to our own devices, with enough opportunities, eventually we’ll mess up—we’ll drift, we’ll stray.

“no person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don’t have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.” (from moral letters) 5. What upsets people is not things themselves, but their judgements about these things. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. If left to our own devices, with enough opportunities, eventually we’ll mess up—we’ll drift, we’ll stray.