When you need words of encouragement, you may not immediately think of quotes from Stoic philosophers. After all, being stoic evokes thoughts of calm without emotion. However, Stoicism, the ancient ...

Financial blogger Mr. Money Mustache recently posted on the Greek and Roman philosophy of Stoicism. His view of the core of Stoic philosophy is thus: "to have a good and meaningful life, you need to ...

Answer by Vincent Buscemi on Quora: I can’t nail down the exact date, but around the age of 18 or 19 I started to cry myself to sleep. Around this time I stared to experience this odd feeling. It is ...

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You’ve probably heard about Stoics or Stoicism — and most of what you know is wrong. They weren’t joyless bores. The ancient Stoics were the first lifehackers: The Original Gangsters of Making Life ...

To me, there are no self-made people. It’s a belief I borrowed from Marcus Aurelius, perhaps one of the most well-known Stoic philosophers. Aurelius starts his famous book Meditations by recognizing ...

Of course, this is selfish—and like most selfish things, also short-sighted. Because this article almost certainly introduced tens of thousands of people to a topic I care about, people who would be ...