“The key to accomplishing that is to ruthlessly expunge the inessential from our lives. What vanity obligates us to do, what greed signs us up for, what ill discipline adds to our plate, what a lack of courage prevents us from saying no to. All of this we must cut, cut, cut.”
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Ryan Holiday,
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living