The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

Instead of simply accepting what happens, they urge us to actually enjoy what has happened—whatever it is.

“Meditate often on the interconnectedness and mutual interdependence of all things in the universe.

Today, you could try to increase your wealth, or you could take a shortcut and just want less.

One thing will stay constant: our freedom of choice—both in the big picture and small picture.

“What is it then to be properly educated? It is learning to apply our natural preconceptions to the right things according to Nature, and beyond that to separate the things that lie within our power from those that don’t.”

Don’t fill your mind with all the bad things that might still happen. Stay focused on the present situation and ask yourself why it’s so unbearable and can’t be survived.”

“I live from one day to the next! If something strikes me as probable, I say it; and that is how, unlike everyone else, I remain a free agent.”

Get right to it if that’s in your power. Don’t look around to see if people will know about it. Don’t await the perfection of Plato’s Republic, but be satisfied with even the smallest step forward and regard the outcome as a small thing.”

You don’t control the situation, but you control what you think about it.