Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Indeed, if you find anything in human life better than justice, truth, self control, courage — in short, anything better than the sufficiency of your own mind, which keeps you acting according to the demands of true reason and accepting what fate gives you outside of your own power of choice — I tell you, if you can see anything better than this, turn to it heart and soul and take full advantage of this greater good you've found. — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 9.5
You are always free to choose. In the long run, no one forces you to think, feel, or behave the way you do. Rather, you choose your emotions and your behaviors by the way you choose to think about the world around you and about what is happening to you.
