Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom Perseverance and Art of Living
We must give up many things to which we are addicted, considering them to be good. Otherwise, courage will vanish, which should continually test itself. Greatness of soul will be lost, which can't stand out unless it disdains as petty what the mob regards as most desirable. — Seneca, Moral Letters, 74:12b-13
we lost both piety and happiness but when we lost happiness we did not lose the love of it.’
96 All that is needed is for us to reason clearly where true happiness canbe found in the eternal unchanging goodness" and direct our love towards God.
31 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Show me that the good life doesn't consist in its length, but in its use, and that it is possible- no, entirely too common for a person who has had a long life to have lived too little.
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Don't you know life is like a military campaign? One must serve on watch, another in reconnaissance, another on the front line... So it is for us —each person's life is a kind of battle, and a long and varied one too. You must keep watch like a soldier and do everything commanded... You have been stationed in a key post, not some lowly place, and not for a short time but for life. —Epictetus, Discourses, 3.24.31-36
