Where to look when you… are seeking achievements
Daily Touch of Inspirations
May 30th: Working hard or hardly working?
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
I can't call a person a hard worker just because I hear they read and write even if working at it all night. Until I know what a person is working for, I can't deem them industrious...I can if the end they work for is their own ruling principle, having it be and remain in constant harmony with Nature. ~Epictetus, Discourses, 4.4.41;43
Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence.
Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.
~ Vince Lombardi ~
Daily Touch of Inspirations
June 2nd: Plato's view
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
How beautifully Plato put it. Whenever you want to talk about people, it's best to take a bird's eye view and see everything all at once- of gatherings, armies, farms, weddings and divorces, births and deaths, noisy courtrooms or silent spaces, every foreign people, holidays, memorials, markets- all blended together and arranged in a pairing of opposites. ~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 7.48
Daily Touch of Inspirations
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