Daily touch of inspirations | My Inspirational Quotes

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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November 15th: Everything is change

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

Meditate often on the swiftness with which all that exists and is coming into being is swept by us and carried away. For substance is like a river's unending flow, its activities continually changing and causes infinitely shifting so that almost nothing at all stands still. — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 5.23

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I am your teacher an you are learning in my school. My aim is to bring you to completion, unhindered, free from compulsive behavior, unrestrained, without shame, free, flourishing, and happy, looking to God in things great and small - your aim is to learn and diligently practice all these things. Why then don't you complete the work, if you have the right aim and I have both right aim and right preparation? What is missing?... The work is quite feasible and is the only thing in our power... Let go of the past. We must only begin. Believe me and you will see.

— Epictetus, Discourses, 2.19.29-34 —

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August 16th: Anything can be an advantage

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

Just as the nature of rational things has given to each person their rational powers, so it also gives us this power — just as nature turns to its own purpose any obstacle or any opposition, sets its place in the destined order, and co-opts it, so every rational person can convert any obstacle into the raw material for their own purpose. — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 8.35

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