The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom

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September 18th: Dealing with pain

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

Whenever you suffer pain, keep in mind that it's nothing to be ashamed of and that it can't degrade your guiding intelligence, nor keep it from acting rationality and for the common good. And in most cases you should be helped by the saying of Epicurus, that pain is never unbearable or unending, so you can remember these limits and not add to them in your imagination.. Remember too that many common annoyances are pain in disguise, such as sleepiness, fever and loss of appetite. When they start to get you down, to tell yourself you are giving in to pain. — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 7.64

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What is bad luck? Opinion. What are conflict, dispute, blame, accusation, irreverence, and frivolity? they are all opinions, and more than that, they are opinions that lie outside of our own reasoned choice, presented as if they were good or evil. Let a person shift their opinions only to what belongs in the field of their own choice, and I guarantee that person will have peace of mind, whatever is happening around them.
—Epictetus, Discourses, 3.3.18b-19 (resource), Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic

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