We don’t need to constantly compare ourselves with other people
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’...
When action is our priority, vanity falls away.
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases. —SENECA
The next step after we discard our expectations and accept what happens to us, after understanding that certain things—particularly bad things—are outside our control, is this: loving whatever happens...
Apply yourself to thinking through difficulties—hard times can be softened, tight squeezes widened, and heavy loads made lighter for those who can apply the right pressure. —SENECA, ON TRANQUILITY OF...
In other words, through our perception of events, we are complicit in the creation—as well as the destruction—of
Many times an old man has no other evidence besides his age to prove he has lived a long time. S
You must realize: Nothing makes us feel this way; we choose to give in to such feelings.
You must realize: Nothing makes us feel this way; we choose to give in to such feelings. Or, like Rockefeller, choose not to.
We must be sure to act with deliberation, boldness, and persistence. Those are the attributes of right and effective action.
A poet’s function . . . is not to experience the poetic state: that is a private affair. His function is to create it in others.
You know what is a better response to an attack or a slight or something you don’t like? Love. That’s right, love.
A true student is like a sponge. Absorbing what goes on around him, filtering it, latching on to what he can hold. A student is self-critical and self-motivated, always trying to improve his understan...
The diseases of the rational soul are long-standing and hardened vices, such as greed and ambition—they have put the soul in a straitjacket and have begun to be permanent evils inside it. To put it br...
Men, the philosopher’s lecture-hall is a hospital—you shouldn’t walk out of it feeling pleasure, but pain, for you aren’t well when you enter it. —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.23.30
The economics of the Internet created a twisted set of incentives that make traffic more important—and more profitable—than the truth.
We spend a lot of time thinking about how things are supposed to be, or what the rules say we should do. Trying to get it all perfect. We tell ourselves that we’ll get started once the conditions are...
Yes, there are legitimate stresses and anguish that come with the responsibilities of your new life. All the things you’re managing, the frustrating mistakes of people who should know better, the endl...
That is, when you can break apart something, or look at it from some new angle, it loses its power over you.
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