17 You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.”18 But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.
Ernie Zelinski, 101 Really Important Things You Already Know but keep forgetting
No doubt you have noticed that it isn't all that difficult to get advice for your problems- regardless of the size or nature. To be sure, most individuals will be more than happy to give you guidance on anything imaginable and declare that it is great advice. A lot of them have likely adopted one of Oscar Wilde's principles:
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
The beautiful and good person neither fights with anyone nor, as much as they are able, permits others to fight... this is the meaning of getting an education— learning what is your own affair and what is not. If a person carries themselves so, where is there any room for fighting? —Epictetus, Discourses, 4.5.1;7b-8a
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
It's ruinous for the soul to be anxious about the future and miserable in advance of misery, engulfed by anxiety that the things it desires might remain its own until the very end. For such a soul will never be at rest — longing for things to come it will lose the ability to enjoy the present things. — Seneca, Moral Letters, 98.5b-6a
