Daily touch of inspirations
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November 28th: It's not on them, it's on you
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
If someone is slipping up, kindly correct them and point out what they missed. But if you can't blame yourself — or no one. — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 10.4
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August 15th: The Supreme Court of your mind
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
This can be swiftly taught in very few words: virtue is the only good; there is no certain good without virtue; and virtue resides in our nobler part, which is the rational one. And what can this virtue be? True and steadfast judgment. For from this will arise every mental impulse, and by it every appearance that spurs our impulses will be rendered clear. — Seneca, Moral Letters, 71.32
Keep this thought handy when you fee a fit of rage coming on- it isn't manly to be enraged. Rather, gentleness and civility are more human, and therefore manlier. A real man doesn't give way to anger and discontent, and such a person has strength, courage and endurance- unlike the angry and complaining. The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the close he is to strength.
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 11.18.5b
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Above all, keep a close watch on this- that you are never so tied to your former acquaintances and friends that you are pulled down to their level. If you don't, you'll be ruined... You must choose whether to be loved by these friends and remain the same person, or to become a better person at the cost of those friends... if you try to have it both ways you will neither make progress nor keep what you once had.
— Epictetus, Discourses, 4.2.1; 4.5, (resource) The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom
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August 9th: Stick with just the facts
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Don't tell yourself anything more than what the initial impressions report. It's been reported to you that someone is speaking badly about you. This is the report — the report wasn't that you've been harmed. I see that my son is sick — but not that his life is at risk. So always stay within your first impressions, and don't add to them in your head — this way nothing can happen to you. — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 8.49
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November 20th: Behold, now as ever
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
If you've seen the present, you've seen all things, from time immemorial into all of eternity. For everything that happens is related and the same. — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 6.37
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July 24th: Somewhere someone's dying
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Whenever disturbing news is delivered to you, bear in mind that no news can ever be relevant to your reasoned choice. Can anyone break news to you that your assumptions or desires are wrong? No way! But they can tell you someone died — even so, what is that to you?Epictetus, Discourses, 3.18.1-2
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September 11th: What would less look like?
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Let us get used to dining out without the crowds, to being a slave to fewer slaves, to getting clothes only for their real purpose, and to living more modest quarters. — Seneca, On Tranquility of Mind, 9.3b
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June 10th: You can do it
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
If you find something very difficult to achieve yourself, don't imagine it impossible —for anything possible and proper for another person can be achieved as easily by you. —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 6.19