Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
We must undergo a hard winter training and not rush into training and not rush into things for which we haven't prepared. Epictetus, Discourses, 1.2.32
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Think of those who, not by fault of inconsistency but by lack of effort, are too unstable to life as they wish, but only live as they have begun. —Seneca, On Tranquility of Mind, 2.6b
Conversion, however, did not temper John's high dudgeon against the world. He gained some friends among fellow patients, but a lifetime of rejection and mistreatment had permanently embittered against him against all nonpatients. One day, almost defiantly, he asked me what would happen if he visited the local Tamil church in Vellore.
Belonging
From In His Image, Paul Brand and Philip Yancey (Stories for the Heart)
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
How appropriate that the gods put under our control only the most powerful ability that govern all the rest — the ability to make the right use of external appearances — and that they didn't put anything else under our control. Was this simply because they weren't willing to give us more? I think if it had been possible they would have given us more, but it was impossible. — Epictetus, Discourses 1.1.7-8
