Philosophy
“I expect nothing, I can handle anything.”
Mantra or tool to center you.
“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us: we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
C.S. Lewis
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
Rumi
“You don’t have to form an opinion about this and trouble your mind. Things themselves have no inherent power to form our opinions.”
Marcus Aurelius
“We have the power to hold no opinion about a thing and to not let it upset our state of mind—for things have no natural power to shape our judgments.”
Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
Henry David Thoreau
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