Daily touch of inspirations

Daily Touch of Inspirations

July 27th: Where is anything better?

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

Indeed, if you find anything in human life better than justice, truth, self control, courage — in short, anything better than the sufficiency of your own mind, which keeps you acting according to the demands of true reason and accepting what fate gives you outside of your own power of choice — I tell you, if you can see anything better than this, turn to it heart and soul and take full advantage of this greater good you've found. — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 9.5

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August 8th: Start with where the world is

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

Do now what nature demands of you. Get right to it if that's in your power. Don't look around to see if people will know about it. Don't await the perfection of Plato's Republic, but be satisfied with even the smallest step forward and regard the outcome as small thing. — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 9.29.(4)

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February 28th: When you lose control

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

The soul is like a bowl of water, and our impressions are like the ray of light falling upon the water. When the water is troubled, it appears that the light itself is moved too, but it isn't. So, when a person loses their composure it isn't their skills and virtues that are troubled, but the spirit in which they exist, and when that spirit in which they exist, and when that spirit calms down so do those things. —Epictetus, Discourses, 3.3.20-22

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August 14th: This isn't for fun. It's for life

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

Philosophy isn't a parlor trick or made for show. It's not concerned with words, but with facts. It's not employed for some pleasure before the day is spent, or to relieve the uneasiness of our leisure. It shapes and builds up the soul, it gives order to life, guides action, shows what and shouldn't be done — it sits at the rudder steering our course as we vacillate in uncertainties. Without it, no one can live without fear or free from care. Countless things happen every hour that require advice, and such advice is to be sought out in philosophy. — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 9.26

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