Stillness Is the Key

staffers in his last hours in the White House: “Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.”

Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the ai

There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with.

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON

ENOUGH

Quite the contrary. It might even make things less clear—make them darker before the dawn.

“If you wish to improve,” Epictetus once said, “be content to appear clueless or stupid in extraneous matters.”

What is better than these two extremes—ego and imposter syndrome—but simple confidence? Earned. Rational. Objective. Still.

But virtue? No one can stop you from knowing what’s right. Nothing stands between you and it . . . but yourself.