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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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July 25th: What's on your tombstone?
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
When you see someone often flashing their rank or position, or someone whose name is often bandied about public, don't be envious; such things are bought at the expense of life... Some die on the first rungs of the ladder of success others before they can reach the top, and the few that make it to the top of their ambition through a thousand indignities realize at the end it's only for an inscription on their gravestone.—Seneca, On the Brevity of Life, 20
Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future.
— Saul Alinsky —
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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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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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June 11th: Just don't make things worse
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
How much more harmful are the consequences that aroused them in us! —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 11.18,8
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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
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February 8th: Did that make you feel better?
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
You cry, I'm suffering severe pain! Are you the relieved from feeling it, if you bear it in an unmanly way? —Seneca, Moral Letters, 78.17