Today's episode is about stoics and emotions. So earlier this week on reddit, in the stoicism subreddit, somebody posted a link to an article in Psy...

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. The...

One of the hardest things for us to do, though it is one of the most important things we will ever learn, is to accept ourselves for exactly who we ar...

Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. —Marcus Aurelius Don’t let fear, lo...

"When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can he...

Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it. — Epictetus. The hardest thing about any philosophy is being able to apply what you learn in real life. We...

"Everyone faces up more bravely to a thing for which he has long prepared himself, sufferings, even, being withstood if they have been trained for in...

"Anxieties can only come from your internal judgement." — Marcus Aurelius We all have things in our lives that seems to stop us from completing things...

“To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.” ― Seneca Life is...

"One cannot pursue one’s own highest good without at the same time necessarily promoting the good of others." — Epictetus What kind of privileges hav...

"It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own." – Marcus Aurelius Are you...

Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them to. Accept events as they actually happen. That way peace is possible.  — Epictetus...