>Leave the past behind

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 (resource) 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...

How appropriate that the gods put under our control only the most powerful ability that...

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For even peace itself will supply more reason to worry. Not even safe circumstances will bring you confidence once your mind has been shocked...Read More

Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson (resource) Ryan...Read More

Show me someone who isn't a slave to lust, another to greed, another to power, and all are slaves to fear. I could name...Read More

When forced, as it seems, by circumstances into utter confusion, get a hold of yourself quickly. Don't be locked out of the rhythm any...Read More

Remember that you are an actor in a play, playing character according to the will of the playwright — if a short play, then...Read More

From the very beginning, make it your practice to say every harsh impression, "you are an impression and not at all what you appear...Read More

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