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August 4th: No blame, Just focus
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
You must stop blaming God, and not blame any person. You must completely control your desire and shift your avoidance to what lies within your reasoned choice. You must no longer feel anger, resentment, envy, or regret.— Epictetus, Discourses, 3.22.13
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September 16th: Anyone can get lucky, not everyone can persevere
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Success comes to the lowly and to the poorly talented, but the special characteristic of a great person is to triumph over the disaster and panics of human life. — Seneca, On Providence, 4.1
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August 27th: Laugh, or cry
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Heraclitus would shed tears whenever he went out in public — Democritus laughed. One saw the whole as a parade of miseries, the other follies. And so, we should take a lighter view of things and bear them with an easy spirit, for it is more human to laugh at life than to lament it. — Seneca, On Tranquility of Mind, 15.2
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February 15th: Only bad dreams
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Clear your mind and get a hold on yourself and as when awakened from sleep and realizing it was only a bad dream upsetting you, wake up and see that what's there is just like those dreams. —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 6.31
The more hours per day you spend doing what you're good at, the less stressed you feel and the more you laugh, smile, and feel you're being treated with respect.
—Gallup, Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science behind why everything you know about success is (mostly) wrong
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May 14th: Our well-being lies in our actions...
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Those obsessed with glory attach their well-being to the regard of others, those who love pleasure tie it to feelings, but the one with true understanding seeks it only in their own actions... Think on the character of the people one wishes to please, the possessions one means to gain, and the tactics one employs to such ends. How quickly time erases such things, and how many will yet be wiped away. ~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 6.51.59
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February 12th: Protect your peace of mind
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Keep constant guard over your perceptions, for it is no small thing you are protecting, but your respect, trustworthiness and steadiness, peace of mind, freedom from pain and fear, in a word your freedom. For what would you sell these things? — Epictetus, Discourses, 4.3.6b-8
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June 9th: Solve problems early
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
There is no vice which lacks a defense, none that at the outset isn't modest and easily intervened —but after this the trouble spreads widely. If you allow it to get started you won't be able to control when it stops Every emotion is at first weak. Later it rouses itself and gathers strength as it moves along —it's easier to slow it down than to supplant it. —Seneca, Moral Letters, 106.2b-3a
When it comes to money, where we feel our clear interest, we have an entire art where the tester uses many means to discover the worth... just as we give great attention to judging things that might steer us badly. but when it comes to our own ruling principle, we yawn and doze off, accepting any appearance that flashes by without counting to cost.
—Epictetus, Discourses, 1.20.8:11(resource) The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom
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