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Freedom? That’s easy. It’s in your choices. Happiness? That’s easy. It’s in your choices. Respect of your peers? That too is in the choices you make.

Ryan Holiday

Freedom? That’s easy. It’s in your choices. Happiness? That’s easy. It’s in your choices. Respect of your peers? That too is in the choices you make.

Tags: stoic

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About Ryan Holiday

Ryan Holiday (born June 16, 1987) is an American author, originally a marketer, who made a name writing books and marketing them in non-traditional ways.
Holiday's debut to writing was in 2012, when he published Trust Me, I'm Lying. Since then he has published a number of other books including The Obstacle Is the Way (2014) and Ego is the Enemy (2016).