The Stoic Magazine Library

Stoic quotes for every day of the month

There is quiet meaning in continuing to meet life with steadiness and decency even when circumstances are hard. Sometimes that is enough.

We train because situations will test us before we feel fully prepared for them. In that sense, difficult workplaces can become unexpected training grounds.

Self-mastery is not about controlling the world around you. It is about learning to govern yourself within it.

The goal is to stop being pulled—to stop reacting automatically to everything that happens around us and to stop dancing to impulses, emotions, and external events as if we have no say in the matter.

Everyone faces challenges and a good life is within the grasp of all of us.

What if we could eliminate most worries instead of accepting them? What if we could neutralize the causes instead of treating the symptoms?

What is the “self” that we’re supposed to impose and exercise mastery over? Another lower part or a whole panoply of paris of ourself, perhaps? And who or what is the master in that case? The ruling part? The faculty of choice?