To ask, every day, "What matters, in the end?" is to create the possibility of differentiated choice, the potential to overthrow the tyranny of our history, so as to honour something in us that has always been there, waiting for our courage.
— James Hollis
To ask, every day, "What matters, in the end?" is to create the possibility of differentiated choice, the potential to overthrow the tyranny of our history, so as to honour something in us that has always been there, waiting for our courage. — James Hollis
Doing the right thing almost always takes courage, just as discipline is impossible without the wisdom to know what is worth choosing.
Ryan Holiday • Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave (The Stoic Virtues Series)
If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives. —BRUNO BETTELHEIM, The Uses of Enchantment
Charles Cumming • A Spy by Nature: A Novel (Alec Milius Book 1)
Which is why each of us needs to sit down and examine ourselves. What do we stand for? What do we believe to be essential and important? What are we really living for? Deep in the marrow of our bones, in the chambers of our heart, we know the answer.
Ryan Holiday • Stillness Is the Key
what matters is our choices. What are they? How will we evaluate them? How will we make the most of them?
Stephen Hanselman • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
The most fundamental aspect of your humanity is your ability to make choices and stand by those choices, what Viktor Frankl called the last of human freedoms, “To choose one’s own way.” Choosing your own way has at least two key meanings: making decisions about what you want to happen and choosing how you respond to what does happen.
Benjamin Hardy • Personality Isn't Permanent
status, or to be guided in our search for meaning by our values, talents and passions?