And when the soul has yielded to pleasure, its functions and actions grow weak, and any undertaking comes from a nerveless and unsteady source. - Seneca #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

Try how the life of the good man suits thee, the life of him who is satisfied with his portion out of the whole, and satisfied with his own just acts and benevolent disposition. - Marcus Aurelius #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

If you want to improve, you must be content to be thought foolish and stupid. - Epictetus #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

Attend to the matter before you, whether it is an opinion or an act or a word. You suffer this justly: for you choose rather to become good tomorrow than to be good today. - Marcus Aurelius #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

Ab honesto virum bonum nihil deterret. (Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honorable.)-A Wrinkle in Time. - Seneca #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say. It is no evil for things to undergo change, and no good for things to subsist in consequence of change. - Marcus Aurelius #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. - Epictetus #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom yourself can improve. Men learn while they teach. - Seneca #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

For that is the people’s verdict, but wise men on the whole reject the people’s decrees. - Seneca #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty. - Marcus Aurelius #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself. - Epictetus #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor. - Seneca #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power. - Marcus Aurelius #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

To the best of my judgment, when I look at the human character I see no virtue placed there to counter justice. But I see one to counter pleasure: self-control. - Marcus Aurelius #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

Whoever then would be free, let him wish for nothing, let him decline nothing, which depends on others; else he must necessarily be a slave. - Epictetus #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

Whoever then would be free, let him wish for nothing, let him decline nothing, which depends on others; else he must necessarily be a slave. - Epictetus #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

It is only in the ideal or perfect state that the virtues of the good citizen and the good man are identical. - Seneca #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

Don’t imagine that something is good for you if, in pursuing it, you must break a promise, harm anyone else, lose self-respect, act hypocritically, or hide in shame. - Marcus Aurelius #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

Goodness exists independently of our conception of it. The good is out there and it always has been out there, even before we began to exist. - Epictetus #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him. - Marcus Aurelius #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. - Seneca #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

Virtue is according to nature; vice is opposed to it and hostile. - Seneca #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

The earth, saith the poet, doth often long after the rain. So is the glorious sky often as desirous to fall upon the earth, which argues a mutual kind of love between them. - Marcus Aurelius #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

Long association brings love of evil as well as good. - Seneca #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

Only the wise man is content with what is his. All foolishness suffers the burden of dissatisfaction with itself. - Seneca #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

There is but one chain holding us in fetters, and that is our love of life. - Seneca #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

The things ordained for you—teach yourself to be at one with those. And the people who share them with you—treat them with love. With real love. - Marcus Aurelius #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live. - Marcus Aurelius #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will. - Epictetus #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

He who spares the wicked injures the good. - Seneca #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

Certain people have good, ordinary blood and others have an animated, lively sort of blood that comes to the face quickly. - Seneca #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

We shall consider later whether these evils derive their power from their own strength, or from our own weakness. - Seneca #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

The surest way for those who want to rule is praising moderation, talking of peace and quiet. - Seneca #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence. - Seneca #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. - Marcus Aurelius #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

The things ordained for you—teach yourself to be at one with those. And the people who share them with you—treat them with love. With real love. - Marcus Aurelius #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony. - Seneca #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

No man’s good by accident. Virtue has to be learnt. - Seneca #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

It was nature’s intention that there should be no need of great equipment for a good life: every individual can make himself happy. - Seneca #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

In a sense, people are our proper occupation. Our job is to do them good and put up with them. - Marcus Aurelius #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

Is you naturally entitled, then, to a good father? No, only to a father. - Epictetus #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

For that is the people’s verdict, but wise men on the whole reject the people’s decrees. - Seneca #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

For that is the people’s verdict, but wise men on the whole reject the people’s decrees. - Seneca #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say. It is no evil for things to undergo change, and no good for things to subsist in consequence of change. - Marcus Aurelius #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

You have grown beyond supposing such actions to be either good or bad, and therefore it will be so much the easier to be tolerant of another's blindness. - Marcus Aurelius #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

The ruler must be a philosopher as well as a king; and he must govern unwillingly, because he loves philosophy better than dominion. - Marcus Aurelius #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

Peace you can claim for yourself without being disliked by anyone, without any sense of loss, and without any pangs of spirit. - Seneca #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. - Seneca #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool. - Seneca #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios

No man was ever wise by chance - Seneca #dailystoic #stoicquote #mindfulness #stoicism #digitaljournal #ios