Living clearly and presently takes courage. Don’t live in the haze of the abstract, live with the tangible and real, even if—especially if—it’s uncomfortable. Be part of what’s going on around you. Fe...
Leave passion for the amateurs. Make it about what you feel you do and say, not what you care about and with to be.
Just because your mind tells you that something is awful or evil or unplanned or otherwise negative doesn’t mean you have to agree.
In your actions, don’t procrastinate. In your conversations, don’t confuse. In your thoughts, don’t wander. In your soul, don’t be passive or aggressive. In your life, don’t be all about business. —MA...
In struggling with his unfortunate fate, Demosthenes found his true calling: He would be the voice of Athens, its great speaker and conscience. He would be successful precisely because of what he’d be...
If an unjust prison sentence can be not only salvaged but transformative and beneficial, then for our purposes,
He says the best way out is always through And I agree to that, or in so far As I can see no way out but through. —ROBERT FROST
Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work. It means you’re the least important person in the room—until you change that with results. Ryan Holliday, Ego is the Enemy, pg 56
Common wisdom provides us with the maxims: Beware the calm before the storm. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. The worst is yet to come. It gets worse before it gets better. The world might ca...
Be slow in deliberation, but be prompt to carry out your resolves – Demonicus
At the end of a frustrating exchange, you might find yourself thinking, Ugh, this person is such an idiot. Or asking, Why can’t they just do things right? But not everyone has had the advantages that...
A good person is invincible, for they don’t rush into contests in which they aren’t the strongest. If you want their property, take it—take also their staff, profession, and body. But you will never c...
We don’t need to constantly compare ourselves with other people
To be a philosopher in all that you do, and if you wish also to be seen as one, show yourself first that you are and you will succeed.
You cry, I’m suffering severe pain! Are you then relieved from feeling it, if you bear it in an unmanly way? —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 78.17
With one approach you took advantage; with the other you succumbed to anger or fear.
With accomplishment comes a growing pressure to pretend that we know more than we do. To pretend we already know everything.
Who wants to be the person who can never let go? Is there so little meaning in your life that your only pursuit is work until you’re eventually carted off in a coffin? Take pride in your work. But it...
Wherever we are, whatever we’re doing and wherever we are going, we owe it to ourselves, to our art, to the world to do it well.
What thrives online is not the writing that reflects anything close to the reality in which you and I live. Nor does it allow for the kind of change that will create the world we wish to live in.