Focus on What Matters: A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well
As Seneca once said: “To be everywhere is to be nowhere.”
Darius Foroux • Focus on What Matters: A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well
What actually matters to your happiness? Good friendships, work that you enjoy, reading books that make you think, walking in nature, working out, watching a good movie — you know this.
Darius Foroux • Focus on What Matters: A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well
“Choose not to be harmed — and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed — and you haven’t been.”
Darius Foroux • Focus on What Matters: A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well
“Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes as well; and after you have run over many thoughts, select one to be thoroughly digested that day.”
Darius Foroux • Focus on What Matters: A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well
Seneca says, “Let the man who enters our house admire us rather than our furnishings.”
Darius Foroux • Focus on What Matters: A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well
That’s how you protect your mood: By not feeling responsible for how others feel. Focus on yourself and be the best person you can be. And if others need your help, you can be there for them.
Darius Foroux • Focus on What Matters: A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well
Show them sympathy, use comforting words, and even share their misery outwardly. But make sure that you do not inwardly grieve with them.”
Darius Foroux • Focus on What Matters: A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well
There’s no need to change anything to find inner peace. It’s right there where you are. You just have to change your mindset to see it.
Darius Foroux • Focus on What Matters: A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well
The Stoics accepted things as if they wanted them in the first place. It’s