stoicism-vs-hedonism Quotes

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

"The obstacle is the way."

"The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition."

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

"A happy person isn't someone who's happy all the time. It's someone who effortlessly interprets events in such a way that they don't lose their innate peace."

"One should always be drunk. That's all that matters... But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk."

"Man conquers the world by conquering himself."

"To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life."

"The pleasure principle... draws up the programme of life's purpose."

"Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily."

"I possess, but am not possessed."

"The goal of Stoic practice is not to suppress emotion, but to cultivate the right kind of emotion."

"Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness."

"Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure."

"Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again."

"Ah, fill the Cup: - what boots it to repeat / How Time is slipping underneath our Feet: / Unborn TO-MORROW and dead YESTERDAY, / Why fret about them if TO-DAY be sweet!"

"Happiness is a good flow of life."

"Stoicism is about the domestication of emotions, not the elimination of emotions."

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."

"If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labor passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures."

"You must be drunk always... With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you please. But get drunk."

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself."

"You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality."

"It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give happiness."

"Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after."

"Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. (Seize the day, put very little trust in tomorrow.)"

"Whatever you do, do it for the joy it brings you, for the pleasure of the action itself."

"While life remains, let a man live happily, let him feed on ghee even though he runs in debt."

"It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

"No pleasure is a bad thing in itself, but the things which produce certain pleasures bring troubles many times greater than the pleasures."

"Don't demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well."

"Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where."

"I begin to speak only when I’m certain what I’ll say isn’t better left unsaid."

"The Church is meant to be a family where celibate individuals find belonging and purpose."

"Suffering is a choice. You choose to suffer."

"We are called to chastity, which is an aspect of love, not its negation."

"The only thing that isn't up to us is what's outside our reasoned choice."

"Celibacy is not a lack of love, but a reorientation of love towards God and neighbor."

"True pleasure is found in the absence of pain and the tranquility of mind."

"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."

"My desire for intimacy is real, but its fulfillment is found in Christ and community, not necessarily sexual union."

"Our longing for union is ultimately for God, and celibacy can sharpen that spiritual desire."

"Through prayer and community, we find strength to live out our call to celibacy joyfully."

"The cross calls us to die to self, including our sexual desires, for a greater spiritual good."

"Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance."

"Side B acknowledges the reality of same-sex attraction while upholding traditional Christian sexual ethics."

"Side B is about finding a flourishing life within the bounds of Christian discipleship, not about denying our humanity."

"Sickness of the soul is worse than sickness of the body."

"The celibate life, lived for Christ, is a prophetic witness in a hypersexualized world."

"Control your perceptions. Redirect your actions. Master your will."

"Side B is about living a full, rich, celibate life in Christ, not merely enduring a lack."

"Our identity in Christ transcends our sexual attractions, calling us to a higher purpose."

"The greatest good is to live in conformity with nature."

"Chastity is not a burden, but a path to freedom and deeper devotion to Christ."

"Friendship, not romance, can be the primary vessel for deep intimacy and love for Side B Christians."

"To embrace celibacy is to trust God's plan for our lives, even when it diverges from societal norms."

"Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when death does come, we no longer exist."