Adversity is the Stoic’s gym.
Control your breath, and the world stops shaking you.
Share your struggle and halve its weight.
Epictetus Enchiridion 1: Some things are within our power, while others are not.
Stoicism isn’t for museums—it’s for streets.
It’s not the blow that hurts, but your resistance to falling.
Even oaks need forests.
Marcus Aurelius Meditations 2.11: You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say.