#stoic

I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#philosophy #stoic #life

There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#stoicism #love

My boyfriends have all been as stoical as queen's guards. They'd been patient, committed, and dispassionate, and I'd had to really debase myself to extract any emotion, either grin or grimace, from them. ↗

— Koren Zailckas

#ex-boyfriends #love #relationships #stoicism #love

People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves? ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#stoicism #nature

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#stoicism #terrorism #terrorism

Warriors should suffer their pain silently. ↗

— Erin Hunter

#hunter #hurt #pain #stoicism #suffer

One person couldn't feel all that, they'd explode!" said Ron. "Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have," said Hermione. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#hermione-granger #ron-weasley #stoic #emotion

Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart? ↗

— Jane Austen

#duty

Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. ↗

— T.H. White

#dichotomy #happiness #pain #stoicism #beauty

The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us. ↗

— Knute Nelson

#body #chilling #cold #enemy #happy