You know what is a better response to an attack or a slight or something you don’t like? Love. That’s right, love.
You are not your body and hair-style, but your capacity for choosing well. If your choices are beautiful, so too will you be. —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES
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...
Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself. —PUBLIUS SYRUS
Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself. —PUBLIUS SYRUS W
While overpaid CEOs take long vacations and hide behind e-mail autoresponders, some programmer is working eighteen-hour days coding the start-up that will destroy that CEO’s business.
While others are excited or afraid, we will remain calm and imperturbable. We will see things simply and straightforwardly, as they truly are—neither good nor bad. This will be an incredible advantage...
Whether what you’re going through is your fault or your problem doesn’t matter, because it’s yours to deal with right now.
Whenever you get an impression of some pleasure, as with any impression, guard yourself from being carried away by it, let it await your action, give yourself a pause. After that, bring to mind both t...
When you let your attention slide for a bit, don’t think you will get back a grip on it whenever you wish—instead, bear in mind that because of today’s mistake everything that follows will be necessar...
When you have a goal, obstacles are actually teaching you how to get where you want to go—carving you a path. The Things which hurt, Benjamin Franklin wrote, instruct.
Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble. (Quidvis recte factum quamvis humile praeclarum.) —SIR HENRY ROYCE L
What you must do is learn how to press forward precisely when everyone around you sees disaster. It
What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice. —THEODORE ROOSEVELT
What matters most is not what these obstacles are but how we see them, how we react to them, and whether we keep our composure.
What is bad luck? Opinion. What are conflict, dispute, blame, accusation, irreverence, and frivolity? They are all opinions,
What humans require in our ascent is purpose and realism. Purpose, you could say, is like passion with boundaries. Realism is detachment and perspective.
We’re not trying to ace tests or impress teachers. We are reading and studying to live, to be good human beings—always and forever.
We’re all just humans, doing the best we can. We’re all just trying to survive, and in the process, inch the world forward a little bit.
Well, what if the other party is wrong? What if conventional wisdom is too conservative? It’s this all-too-common impulse to complain, defer, and then give up that holds us back. An