The struggle is great, the task divine-to gain mastery, freedom, happiness, and tranquility. #stoicism #life #philosophy

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

— Frederick Douglass

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. #stoicism #life #philosophy

"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule." #stoicism #life #philosophy

"Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response." #stoicism #life #philosophy

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience. #stoicism #life #philosophy

"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads." #stoicism #life #philosophy

"It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it." #stoicism #life #philosophy

"Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear." #stoicism #life #philosophy

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

— Seneca

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things ina great way. #stoicism #life #philosophy

"You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live." #stoicism #life #philosophy

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

— Abraham Lincoln

"Remind yourself what you've been through and what you've had the strength to endure." #stoicism #life #philosophy

At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.

— Rumi

Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.

— Epictetus

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. #stoicism #life #philosophy

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

— Jim Rohn

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." #stoicism #life #philosophy

"Having experienced both, I am not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it." #stoicism #life #philosophy