Patrick Sheehan

“The beautiful and good person neither fights with anyone nor, as much as they are able, permits others to fight . . . this is the meaning of getting an education—learning what is your own affair and what is not. If a person carries themselves so, where is there any room for fighting?” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 4.5.1; 7b–8a”
― Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

“Think of the life you have lived until now as over and, as a dead man, see what’s left as a bonus and live it according to Nature. Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own, for what could be more fitting?” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.56–57”
― Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

“Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing. They were: I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. I wish I hadn’t worked so much. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends. I wish that I had let myself be happier.”
― Greg Hiebert, NOT A BOOK: You Can't Give What You Don't Have: Creating The Seven Habits That Make A Remarkable Life

“enormous gap existed in the United States between the best medical practice and the average, and an unbridgeable chasm separated the best from the worst.”
― John M. Barry, The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History