Daily Touch of Inspirations
April 6th: Prepare yourself for negativity
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
When you first rise in the morning tell yourself: I will encounter busybodies, ingrates, egomaniacs, liars, the jealous and cranks. They are all stricken with these afflictions because they don't know the difference between good and evil. Because I have understood the beauty of good and the ugliness of evil, I know that these wrong-doers are still akin to me... and that none can do me harm, or implicate me in ugliness- nor can I be angry at my relatives or hate them. For we are made for cooperation. —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 2.1