The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom
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July 29th: A cure for the self
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The person who has practiced philosophy as a cure for the self becomes great of soul, filled with confidence, invincible — and greater as you draw near. — Seneca, Moral Letters, 111.2
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November 18th: Four habits of the Stoic mind
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Our rational nature moves freely forward in its impressions when it: 1) accepts nothing false or uncertain; 2) directs its impulses only to acts for the common good; 3) limits its desires and aversions only to what's in its own power; 4) embraces everything nature assigns it. — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 8.7
The essence of good is a certain kind of reasoned choice; just as the essence of evil is another kind. What about externals, then? They are only the raw material for our reasoned choice, which finds its own good or evil in working with them. How will it find the good? Not by marveling at the material! For if judgments about the material are straight that makes our choices good, but if those judgments are twisted, our choices turn bad.
—Epictetus, Discourses, 1.29-1-3—
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January 23rd: The truth about money
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Let's pass over to the really rich- how often the occasions they look just like to poor! When they travel abroad they must restrict their baggage, and when haste is necessary, they dismiss their entourage. And those who are in the army, how few of their possessions they get to keep..." —Seneca, On Consolation to Helvia, 12.1.b-2
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September 4th: How can you know whether you've never been tested!
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent — no one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you. — Seneca, On Providence, 4.3
Find your "scene"- a group of peers who might have given you a warning when he saw you spending time to some bad kids: "Remember, you become like your friends."
— James Altucher, (resource) The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom
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How does your ruling reason manage itself? For in that is the key to everything. Whatever else remains, be it the power of your choice or not, is but a corpse and smoke.
—Marcus Aurelius,Meditations,12.38(resource) Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance and Art of Living
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The unrestricted person, who has in hand what they will in all events, is free. But anyone who can be restricted, coerced, or pushed into something against what they will is a slave.
— Epcitetus, Discourses, 4.1.128b-129b(resource) Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic
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Your principles can't be extinguished unless you snuff out the thoughts that feed them, for its continually in your power to reignite new ones... It's possible to start living again! See things anew as you once did - that is how to restart life!
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 7.2
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