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The Greeks had a word for this: apatheia. It’s the kind of calm equanimity that comes with the absence of irrational or extreme emotions. Not the loss of feeling altogether, just the loss of the harmful, unhelpful kind. Don’t let the negativity in, don’t let those emotions even get started. Just say: No, thank you. I can’t afford to panic.
Ryan Holiday • The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
“Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought, for the human spirit is colored by such impressions.” - Marcus Aurelius
concluding that he was indeed wiser than all others, for he alone recognized his own ignorance.
Richard Tarnas • Passion of the Western Mind
The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you’re heading.” - Lao Tzu
The thing you are deeply yearning to create is told to you in all the subtle ways other people's artwork slightly misses the mark
Miles Johnstonx.com“Finding the way, is the way.”
– Marcus Aurelius
Stoics do not seek to have the answer for every question or a plan for every contingency. Yet they’re also not worried. Why? Because they have confidence that they’ll be able to adapt and change with the circumstances.
Stephen Hanselman • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
– Epictetus