We have the power to hold no opinion about a thing and to not let it upset our state of mind—for things have no natural power to shape our judgments. —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 6.52
It is quite impossible to unite happiness with a yearning for what we don’t have. Happiness has all that it wants, and resembling the well-fed, there shouldn’t be hunger or thirst. —EPICTETUS, DISCOUR...
Letters used to be signed Deo volente—God willing. Because who knew what would happen?
Many of the things that upset us, the Stoics believed, are a product of the imagination, not reality. Like dreams, they are vivid and realistic at the time but preposterous once we come out of it. In...
What is the fruit of these teachings? Only the most beautiful and proper harvest of the truly educated—tranquility, fearlessness, and freedom. We should not trust the masses who say only the free can...
You will come across obstacles in life—fair and unfair. And you will discover, time and time again,
The more you do, the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get.
It's not with ideas, my dear Degas, that one makes verse. It's with words.- the poet Mallarmé to Degas
If you need help, comrade, just ask.
The good things in life cost what they cost. The unnecessary things are not worth it at any price. The key is being aware of the difference.
No harshness, no deprivation, no toil should interfere with our empathy toward others.
The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged chance, conquered the chance, and made chance the servitor. —E. H. CHAPIN
Shaking off the bad stuff as it happens and soldiering on—staring straight ahead as though nothing has happened.
So today, as RSS buttons disappear from browsers and blogs, just know that this happened on purpose, so that readers could be deceived more easily.
Pride blunts the very instrument we need to own in order to succeed: our mind. Our ability to learn, to adapt, to be flexible, to build relationships, all of this is dulled by pride.
How do you and I usually deal with an impossible deadline handed down from someone above us? We complain. We get angry. We question. How could they? What’s the point? Who do they think I am? We look f...
Our perceptions are the thing that we’re in complete control of.
To create something is a daring, beautiful act. The
It is not enough to have great qualities; we should also have the management of them. —LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
If you’re not still learning, you’re already dying. Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy, pg 104
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