"Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate."

Stoicism, Love, Fate, Acceptance, Destiny

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"He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires."

Wendell Berry, American Poet

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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."

Robert Jordan, American Author

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"She would only make me take my seat if I didn't act calm and Swiss about it all."

Bill Bryson, American Writer

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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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"Ahab still stood like an anvil, receiving every shock, but without the least quivering of his own."

Herman Melville, American Novelist

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"I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery."

Max Beckmann, German Artist

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"Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands."

Marcus Annaeus Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Tears never were worth the effort of crying them."

Mary Balogh, Canadian Author

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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."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

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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."

Jeffrey Fry, American Author

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"Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it."

Change

"Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so."

Will

"Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh."

Death

"Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility."

Character

"Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live."

Man

"Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature."

Purpose

"Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature."

Nature

"Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back."

Death

"If the gods have determined about me and about the things which must happen to me, they have determined well, for it is not easy even to imagine a deity without forethought; and as to doing me harm, why should they have any desire towards that? For what advantage would result to them from this or to the whole, which is the special object of their providence? But if they have not determined about me individually, they have certainly determined about the whole at least, and the things which happen by way of sequence in this general arrangement I ought to accept with pleasure and to be content with them."

Fate

"Time is like a river of fleeting events and its current is strong as soon as something comes into sight it is swept past us and something else takes its place and that too will be swept away."

Time