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Ryan Holiday
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February 2, 2021 - January 30, 2022
Because like Epicurus says, nothing is unending. You just need to be strong and gracious enough to get through it.
It’s not weak to change and adapt. Flexibility is its own kind of strength.
proper training can change your default habits.
Take a day off from work every now and then, but not a day off from learning.
Is this thing I’m about to do consistent with what I believe?
The two words are: persist and resist.” That’s great advice.
Instead, today, let’s seek to be better than the things that disappoint or hurt us.
Display then those qualities in your own power: honesty, dignity, endurance, chastity, contentment, frugality, kindness, freedom, persistence, avoiding gossip, and magnanimity.”
You have two essential tasks in life: to be a good person and to pursue the occupation that you love. Everything else is a waste of energy and a squandering of your potential.
Try to do the right thing when the situation calls for it. Treat other people the way you would hope to be treated. And understand that every small choice and tiny matter is an opportunity to practice these larger principles.
Change isn’t good. The status quo isn’t bad. They just are.
“The universe is change. Life is opinion.”
The earth abides forever, but we will come and go.
Love this!
1. Accept only what is true. 2. Work for the common good. 3. Match our needs and wants with what is in our control.
4. Embrace what nature has in store for us.
This moment right now, to paraphrase Emerson, is a quotation of the moments that have come before and will come ever after.
them. The only permanent thing is prohairesis, our capacity for reasoned choice.
“Always shun that which makes you angry.”
So what do we own? Just our lives—and not for long.
Time is our most irreplaceable asset—we cannot buy more of it. We can only strive to waste as little as possible.
In death, no one is better, no one is worse. All our stories have the same finale.
You don’t get a prize at the end of your life for having consumed more, worked more, spent more, collected more, or learned more about the various vintages than everyone else.
Gratitude is infectious. Its positivity is radiant.
