Control your perceptions. Direct your actions properly. Willingly accept what’s outside your control.
But what is philosophy? Doesn’t it simply mean preparing ourselves for what may come? Don’t you understand that really amounts to saying that if I would so prepare myself to endure, then let anything...
But he knew plenty of distracting sinkholes too: gossip, the endless call of work, as well as fear, suspicion, lust. Every human being is pulled by these internal and external forces that are increasi...
Ask yourself: Is that really worth it? Is it really that pleasurable? Consider that when you crave something or contemplate indulging in a harmless vice.
As Laura Ingalls Wilder put it: There is good in everything, if only we look for it.
And from what we know, he truly saw each and every one of these obstacles as an opportunity to practice some virtue: patience, courage, humility, resourcefulness, reason, justice, and creativity.
Adults create perennial sellers—and adults take responsibility for themselves. Children expect opportunities to be handed to them; maturity is understanding you have to go out and make them.
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts, so he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions. —ALAN WATTS
Through our perception of events, we are complicit in the creation—as well as the destruction—of every one of our obstacles.
Those who attack problems and life with the most initiative and energy usually win. He
Sometimes being superficial—taking things only at first glance—is the most profound approach.
Learn how to limit our passions and their control over our lives.
You thought it would get easier when you arrived; instead, it’s even harder—a different animal entirely. What you found is that you must manage yourself in order to maintain your success.
You don’t control the situation, but you control what you think about it.
When action is our priority, vanity falls away.
We should take wandering outdoor walks, so that the mind might be nourished and refreshed by the open air and deep breathing. —SENECA, ON TRANQUILITY OF MIND
We defeat emotions with logic, or at least that’s the idea. Logic is questions and statements. With enough of them, we get to root causes (which are always easier to deal with).
To one person a situation may be negative. To another, that same situation may be positive.
This is the nature of the American legal system, and of conspiracy as well. It’s slow, adversarial. Moral quandaries and personal issues are reduced to brief moments and decided on small points of law...
Think of what you have been putting off. Issues you declined to deal with. Systemic problems that felt too overwhelming to address. Dead time is revived when we use it as an opportunity to do what we’...