Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
You could enjoy this very moment all the things you are praying to reach by taking the long way around —if you'd stop depriving yourself of them. —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 12.1
[Romans 12:3-8]
3 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.
Ernie Zelinski,101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting
In his work Nicomachean Ethics written in 350 B.C., Greek philosopher Aristotle claimed that happiness is the only thing that human desire for its own sake. People seek riches, not for the sake of being rich, but to be happy. Likewise, individuals desire fame, not for the sake of being famous, but because they believe fame will bring them happiness. According to Aristotle, the highest good for us is happiness, and that is why we desire and seek it.
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
If you are defeated once and tell yourself you will overcome, but carry on as before, know in the end you'll be so ill and weakened that eventually you won't even notice your mistake and will begin to rationalize your behavior. —Epictetus, Discourses, 2.18.31
