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"Being a stoic does not mean being a robot. Being a stoic means remaining calm both at the height of pleasure and the depths of misery."
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"Striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to achieve calm."
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"Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles which have come to you in the past and will come again in the future, but ask yourself with regard to every present difficulty: 'What is there in this that is unbearable and beyond endurance?' You would be ashamed to confess it! And then remind yourself that it is not the future or what has passed that afflicts you, but always the present, and the power of this is much diminished if you take it in isolation and call your mind to task if it thinks that it cannot stand up to it when taken on its own."
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"Ahab still stood like an anvil, receiving every shock, but without the least quivering of his own."
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"She would only make me take my seat if I didn't act calm and Swiss about it all."
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"Worrying about things you cannot control is folly. Focus only on those few things you have any control over, and your life becomes much simpler."
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"My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything bad which Nature makes inevitable."
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"He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires."
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"Tears never were worth the effort of crying them."
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"I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips."
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"But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope."
Resilience
"Could a love of that magnitude die? If it was true love, could it ever die? Was there such a thing as true love?"
Love
"I know it is something of a cliche to say that love makes all things possible, but I believe it does. It is not a magic wand that can be waved over life to make it all sweet and lovely and trouble free, but it can give the energy to fight the odds and win."
Romance
"There were certain moments upon which the whole of the future course of one's life might turn. And almost inevitably they popped out at one without any warning at all, leaving one with no time to consider or engage in a reasoned debate with oneself. One had to make a split second decision, and much depended upon it. Perhaps everything."
Life
"Why do I want to run from happiness?"
Emotion
"People do understand the language of the heart, you know, even if the head does not always comprehend it."
Emotion
"We are made up of everything we have ever been, Percy. It is the joy and the pain of our individuality. There are no two of us the same."
Individuality
"Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the other. On the whole, though, I think I would prefer color to its absence. But then black does add depth and texture to color. Perhaps certain shades of gray are necessary to a complete palette. Even unrelieved black. Ah, a deep philosophical question. Is black necessary to life, even a happy life? Could we ever be happy if we did not at least occasionally experience misery?"
Balance
"One longs and longs to be grown up, doesn't one?,' she said, 'I dreamed of being eighteen and having a Season and meeting handsome gentlemen even apart from Dominic and falling in love with them and marrying him and living happily ever after. But life is not nearly as that simple when one finally does grow up."
Maturity
"Happy? Most of the time? Happiness is always a fleeting thing,' he said, 'It never rests upon anyone as a permanent state, though many of us persist in believing in the foolish idea that if this would just happen or that we would be happy for the rest of our lives. I know moments of happiness just as most other people do. Perhaps I have learned to find it in ways that would pass some people by. I feel the summer heat here at this moment and see the trees and the water and hear that invisible gull overhead. I feel the novelty of having company when I usually come here alone. And this moment brings me happiness."
Contentment
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