The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness
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The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness
Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
Sharon Lebell • The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness
This sounds like the Navy Seal way of seeing the world: "I don't care if you lose. I don't care if you fail. I care that you exerted your maximum effort and did the best you could do."
The untrained response to robbers and thugs and to those who otherwise err is outrage and retribution. Wrongdoers need to be rightly understood to form the correct response to their behavior. The appropriate response to bad deeds is pity for the perpetrators, since they have adopted unsound beliefs and are deprived of the most valuable human capaci
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Freedom comes from understanding the limits of our own power and the natural limits set in place by divine providence. By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free. If, on the other hand, we succumb to our passing desires for things that aren’t in our control, freedom is lost.
Sharon Lebell • The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness
What is really your own? The use you make of the ideas, resources, and opportunities that come your way. Do you have books? Read them. Learn from them. Apply their wisdom. Do you have specialized knowledge? Put it to its full and good use. Do you have tools? Get them out and build or repair things with them. Do you have a good idea? Follow up and f
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It’s better to be a good person and fulfill your obligations than to have renown and power.
Sharon Lebell • The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness
By the steady but patient commitment to removing unsound beliefs from our souls, we become increasingly adept at seeing through our flimsy fears, our bewilderment in love, and our lack of self control. We stop trying to look good to others. One day, we contentedly realize we’ve stopped playing to the crowd.
Sharon Lebell • The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness
Authentic freedom places demands on us.
Sharon Lebell • The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness
When you free yourself of the distractions of shallow or illusory pleasures and devote yourself instead to your rightful duties, you can relax. When you know you’ve done the best you can under the circumstances, you can have a light heart. Your mind doesn’t have to moonlight, making excuses, thinking up alibis, defending your honor, feeling guilty
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Things simply are what they are. Other people think what they will think; it is of no concern to us. No Shame. No Blame.