Daily Stoic Quotes & Sayings

I wanted something that would address the strengths and weaknesses of humanity. I wanted a story that could move readers. My Honor Flight is that story. — Dan McCurrigan

Anger does not solve anything; it builds nothing. — Thomas S. Monson

It's once I discover the people inside that the story really gets going, and then the formal invention becomes less important. It's just the way in; it's the door; and then what's behind it is always some kind of people, which I think probably makes me more in the tradition of realistic fiction because that's usually what I'm interested in, the people. — Jess Walter

Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

An enemy is like a man's most prized flower. It brings him joy to see it buried in the ground. — David Gemmell

She has many names and many visages. She has loves and desires. She dares to dream of a future for herself and her people, despite living under the shadow of the gun, the acrid odour of devastation clogging her nostrils. For the most part she is stoic, for the garrison is also her home, her workplace, her field and her playground. Sometimes, she cries out in anguish, but the sound is muted, for there are few who want to hear. Her suffering and courage would be the stuff of legend, if only legend consisted of ordinary women carrying out extraordinary acts, going about the daily business of survival, displaying super-human strength in countering a mighty military juggernaut. — Laxmi Murthy

The time we decide humans are beyond, is the time we lose our humanity. — Nicholas Grant

Progress daily in your own uncertainty. Live in awareness of the questions. — Bremer Acosta