Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
The raw material for the work of a good and excellent person is their own guiding reason, the body is that of the doctor and the physical trainer, and the farm the farmer's. ~Epictetus, Discourses, 3.3.1
Paulo Coelho, Stories for Parents, Children and Grandchildren
Long ago there lived in Northern India a merchant whose wife had died and who went daily from his lonely house in the foothills to the town below, for buying and selling. "I must have a holiday," he said to himself one day, and he began to climb up into the hills to enjoy the view and the sounds of the forest.
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Leave the past behind, let the grand design take care of the future, and instead only rightly guide the present to reverence and justice. Reverence so that you'll love what you've been allotted, for nature brought you both to each other. Justice so that you'll speak the truth freely and without evasion, and so that you'll act only as the law and value of things require.— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 12.1
The next time you feel yourself getting high and mighty — or conversely, feeling low and inferior — just remember, we all end up the same way. In death, no one is better , no one is worse. All our stories have the same finale.
— Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance and Art of Living —
