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May 17th: The Stoic is work in progress

Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

Show me someone's sick and happy, in danger and happy, disgraced and happy. Show me! By God, how much I'd like to see a Stoic. But since you can't show me someone that perfectly formed, at least show me someone actively forming themselves so, inclined in this way... Show me! ~Epictetus, Discourses, 2.19.24-25a,28

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Three Hairs

~Unknown

There once was a woman who woke up one morning, looked in the mirror, and noticed she had only three hairs on her head. "Well," she said, "I think I'll braid my hair today." So she did and she had a wonderful day.

The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and saw that she had only two hairs on her head. "H-M-M," she said, "I think I'll part my hair down the middle today." So she did and she had a grand day.

The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and noticed that she had only one hair on her head. "Well," she said. "Today I'm going to wear my hair in a pony tail." So she did and she had a fun, fun day.

The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and noticed that there wasn't a single hair on her head....

"YEAH!" she exclaimed, "I don't have to fix my hair today!"

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April 20th: Real good is simple

Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

Here's a way to think about what the masses regard as being 'good' things. If you would first start by setting your mind upon things that are unquestionably good- wisdom, self-control, justice, courage- with this preconception you'll no longer be able to listen to the popular refrain that there are too many good things to experience in a lifetime. ~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 5.12

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Positive thinking won’t let you do anything

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July 25th: What's on your tombstone?

Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

When you see someone often flashing their rank or position, or someone whose name is often bandied about public, don't be envious; such things are bought at the expense of life... Some die on the first rungs of the ladder of success others before they can reach the top, and the few that make it to the top of their ambition through a thousand indignities realize at the end it's only for an inscription on their gravestone.—Seneca, On the Brevity of Life, 20

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February 27th: Cultivating indifference where other grow passion

Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

Of all the things that are, some are good, others bad, and yet others indifferent. The good are virtues and all that share in them; the bad are the vices and all that indulge them; the indifferent lie in between virtue and vice and include wealth, health, life, death, pleasure and pain. — Epictetus, Discourses, 2.19.12b-13

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