When people start to reflect on decisions they're trying to make, they usually change their mind... it requires a lot of courage to take certain steps.
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
These are the characteristics of the rational soul: self- awareness, self- examination, and self determination. It reaps its own harvest... It succeeds in its own purpose... ~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 11.1-2
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Keep constant guard over your perceptions, for it is no small thing you are protecting, but your respect, trustworthiness and steadiness, peace of mind, freedom from pain and fear, in a word your freedom. For what would you sell these things? — Epictetus, Discourses, 4.3.6b-8
My only fixed truth is a belief in people: a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.
