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“You are scared of dying - and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“The only way to know what lies ahead is by continuing onward.”
― Shonjuk Chakma

“The best way of avenging yourself is not to become like the wrongdoer.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Those who courageously choose to confront extreme hardships perceive their experience differently than others. They have the ability to envision something beyond the difficulties they encounter. Perhaps a glimmer of hope? Or perhaps another form of adversity? The truth is that the only way to know what lies ahead is by continuing onward.”
― Shonjuk Chakma

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waist a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficient generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death's final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we know it was passing”
― Seneca

“Do not trust her seeming calm; in a moment the sea is moved to its depths.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“[...] Say good-bye at last to those deceptive prizes more precious to those who hope for them than to those who have won them.”
― Seneca

“Retire into yourself as much as you can. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people's opinions, you will never be rich.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“You have buried someone you loved. Now look for someone to love. It is better to make good the loss of a friend than to cry over him.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." - Meditations”
― Marcus Arelius

“I am acting on behalf of later generations. I am writing down a few things that may be of use to them.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“Every hour of the day, countless situations arise that call for advice, and for that advice we have to look to philosophy.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“... for life itself is slavery if the courage to die be absent...”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“While other people are snatched away from us, we are being filched away surreptitiously from ourselves.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“Kindness has become so rare that it provokes perplexity about what's sincere and what's deceitful.”
― Shonjuk Chakma

“Having in mind not how bravely I was capable of dying but how far from bravely he was capable of bearing the loss, I commanded myself to live.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“We need to set our affections on some good man and keep him constantly before our eyes, so that we may live as if he were watching us and do everything as if he saw what we were doing.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“I would not venture as yet to assure you, or even to hope, that there is nothing left in me needing to be changed.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“We who are recovering from a prolonged spiritual sickness are in the same condition as invalids who have been affected to such an extent by prolonged indisposition that they cannot once be taken out of doors without ill effects.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“A person who starts being friends with you because it pays him will similarly cease to be friends because it pays him to do so.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“Having in mind not how bravely I was capable of dying but how far from bravely he was capable of bearing the loss, I commanded myself to live. There are times when even to live is an act of bravery.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.â€� ~ Epictetus”
― Maya Bennett , STOICISM: The Simplistic Timeless Stoic Art of Better Living with Ancient Wisdom

“Let us too overcome all things, with our reward consisting not in any wreath or garland, not in trumpet-calls for silence for the ceremonial proclamation of our name, but in moral worth, in strength of spirit, in a peace that is won for ever once in any contest fortune has been utterly defeated.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“No action in the human context will succeed without reference to the divine, nor vice versa.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only they truly live. Not satisfied to merely keep good watch over their own days, they annex every age to their own. All the harvest of the past is added to their store. Only an ingrate would fail to see that these great architects of venerable thoughts were born for us and have designed a way of life for us.”
― Ryan Holiday Stephen Hanselman, The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

“In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choice I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.â€� ~Epictetus”
― Maya Bennett , STOICISM: The Simplistic Timeless Stoic Art of Better Living with Ancient Wisdom

“I never looked back, although I had many uneasy periods looking forward.”
― Raymond Chandler

“As the still dawn breaks and first light graces the horizon, we humans are presented with tremendous opportunity. We are gifted with a fresh start, a blank canvas upon which we can paint however we choose.”
― Alexander Zenon, The Stoic Handbook: A Practical Guide for Modern Life