More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
If we can focus on making clear what parts of our day are within our control and what parts are not, we will not only be happier, we will have a distinct advantage over other people who fail to realize they are fighting an unwinnable battle.
Perception,
Action,
W...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
Control your perceptions.
Direct your actions properly.
Willingly accept what’s outside y...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
Plan All The Way To The End.
begin with an end in mind.
oiêsis
A person who doesn’t know their purpose in life doesn’t know who they are or what the universe is.
Have you taken the time to get clarity about who you are and what you stand for?
choice,
refusal,
year...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
repul...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
prepar...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
pur...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
as...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
Choice—to do and think right
Refusal—of temptation
Yearning—to b...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
Repulsion—of negativity, of bad...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
of what isn...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
Preparation—for what lies ahead or whate...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
Purpose—our guiding principle and hig...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
Assent—to be free of deception about what’s inside and outside our control (and be re...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
are the man in the marketplace,
serenity and stability are results of your choices and judgment, not your environment.
avoid the harmful and disruptive judgments that cause those problems, then you will be stable and steady
that sleep is a form of surrender and trust and how easily it comes.
You’ve got just one thing to manage: your choices, your will, your mind.
Every human being is pulled by these internal and external forces that are increasingly more powerful and harder to resist.
Philosophy is simply asking us to pay careful attention and to strive to be more than a pawn.
Instead, tranquility and peace are found in identifying our path and in sticking to it: staying the course—making adjustments here and there, naturally—but ignoring the distracting sirens who beckon us to turn toward the rocks.
The worker has stopped thinking and is mindlessly operating out of habit.
In fact, we are studying philosophy precisely to break ourselves of rote behavior.
Ask yourself: Is this really the best way to do it? Know why you do what you do—do it for the right reasons.
You have the best teachers in the world: the wisest philosophers who ever lived.
And not only are you capable, the professor is asking for something very simple: just begin the work. The rest follows.
Civilization and country are great projects we build together and have been building together with our ancestors for millennia. We are made for cooperation (synergia) with each other.
consistency. They are honest not only when it’s convenient. They are not only there for you when it counts. The qualities that make them admirable come through in every action (“arise with every mental impulse”).
