30 Rules To Live By Quotes

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. ​—”
― Thinknetic, 30 Rules To Live By: How Small Timeless Habits Completely Change Your View On Wealth, Desire And Everyday Vices To Reach Long-Lasting Happiness

“Anxiety is an expression of human suffering that arises from the misjudgment of the nature of things. This occurs when we neglect to develop and refine our character. Anxiety represents a form of misfortune that supports the experience of unhappiness. It limits our ability to develop a rational foundation for applying reason in our daily lives.”
― Thinknetic, 30 Rules To Live By: How Small Timeless Habits Completely Change Your View On Wealth, Desire And Everyday Vices To Reach Long-Lasting Happiness

“The use of the word ‘today’ teaches us that every day presents an opportunity for transformation 3.”
― Thinknetic, 30 Rules To Live By: How Small Timeless Habits Completely Change Your View On Wealth, Desire And Everyday Vices To Reach Long-Lasting Happiness

“Alternatively, our conduct in times of compromise shows us how quickly we move toward vice and act according to our imagination. Remember, imagination in the Stoic sense relates to our misjudgment of the nature of things. Therefore, when our conduct”
― Thinknetic, 30 Rules To Live By: How Small Timeless Habits Completely Change Your View On Wealth, Desire And Everyday Vices To Reach Long-Lasting Happiness

“The Stoa view struggling as attaining freedom from the influence of vice 2. Thus, their profound system of ethics supported the exclusive promotion of virtue – regardless of external causes.”
― Thinknetic, 30 Rules To Live By: How Small Timeless Habits Completely Change Your View On Wealth, Desire And Everyday Vices To Reach Long-Lasting Happiness

“Rather, to struggle means to navigate, with certainty, the realities of life by applying the compass of reason.”
― Thinknetic, 30 Rules To Live By: How Small Timeless Habits Completely Change Your View On Wealth, Desire And Everyday Vices To Reach Long-Lasting Happiness

“Seneca expands on this by teaching us that a mind governed by imagination creates a platform for human suffering to manifest. When this occurs, all consequent actions and behavior are borne from irrationality.”
― Thinknetic, 30 Rules To Live By: How Small Timeless Habits Completely Change Your View On Wealth, Desire And Everyday Vices To Reach Long-Lasting Happiness

“The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.”
― Thinknetic, 30 Rules To Live By: How Small Timeless Habits Completely Change Your View On Wealth, Desire And Everyday Vices To Reach Long-Lasting Happiness

“Our suffering lies in our desire to control the outcome of something that has not yet been set into motion.”
― Thinknetic, 30 Rules To Live By: How Small Timeless Habits Completely Change Your View On Wealth, Desire And Everyday Vices To Reach Long-Lasting Happiness

“In this realm of irrationality, our imagination directs our conduct. Remember, the Stoic interpretation of imagination relates to the incorrect judgment of the nature of things 2. Thus, our pre-emptive worrying arises from our misjudgment of external events.”
― Thinknetic, 30 Rules To Live By: How Small Timeless Habits Completely Change Your View On Wealth, Desire And Everyday Vices To Reach Long-Lasting Happiness

“Stoa advocated that externalities should have no bearing upon the human condition 1. Instead, they advised that we should refine our character to become impermeable to external causes outside of our control. Here, Seneca gently reminds us of our duty to fortify our inner constitution. By doing so, we limit the impact of disturbances upon our human condition.”
― Thinknetic, 30 Rules To Live By: How Small Timeless Habits Completely Change Your View On Wealth, Desire And Everyday Vices To Reach Long-Lasting Happiness

“When we consider “the things that harass,” we will notice that they have one common thread: externality. These things, or external causes, all lie outside of our control. When we focus on these externalities, allowing them to direct our emotions, we experience human suffering”
― Thinknetic, 30 Rules To Live By: How Small Timeless Habits Completely Change Your View On Wealth, Desire And Everyday Vices To Reach Long-Lasting Happiness

“If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”
― Thinknetic, 30 Rules To Live By: How Small Timeless Habits Completely Change Your View On Wealth, Desire And Everyday Vices To Reach Long-Lasting Happiness

“and our expectations thereof are unmet.”
― Thinknetic, 30 Rules To Live By: How Small Timeless Habits Completely Change Your View On Wealth, Desire And Everyday Vices To Reach Long-Lasting Happiness

“The cause of our human suffering lies in the realm of desire. It arises when our desire remains unfulfilled,”
― Thinknetic, 30 Rules To Live By: How Small Timeless Habits Completely Change Your View On Wealth, Desire And Everyday Vices To Reach Long-Lasting Happiness

“When Epictetus speaks of our ‘greatest pleasures,’ he refers to fulfilling our desires in excess. This type of behavior arises from the significant gratification we seek in exercising the extreme expression of our undeveloped character.”
― Thinknetic, 30 Rules To Live By: How Small Timeless Habits Completely Change Your View On Wealth, Desire And Everyday Vices To Reach Long-Lasting Happiness

“In the absence of moderation, our desire is allowed to flourish. This leads to indulgent behavior, extending the limits of our desire beyond what is beneficial.”
― Thinknetic, 30 Rules To Live By: How Small Timeless Habits Completely Change Your View On Wealth, Desire And Everyday Vices To Reach Long-Lasting Happiness

“The Stoa defined ‘moderation’ as the avoidance of excess or extremes within the human condition. They believed that the human condition requires self-discipline to thrive 1. Therefore, the correct development of moral excellence would not be possible within a lifestyle marked by extremes.”
― Thinknetic, 30 Rules To Live By: How Small Timeless Habits Completely Change Your View On Wealth, Desire And Everyday Vices To Reach Long-Lasting Happiness

“Remember, courage in the Stoic sense refers to facing the reality of our human condition.”
― Thinknetic, 30 Rules To Live By: How Small Timeless Habits Completely Change Your View On Wealth, Desire And Everyday Vices To Reach Long-Lasting Happiness

“And so, we reach this state of happiness when the internal qualities that constitute our human condition align to actionable virtue 9.”
― Thinknetic, 30 Rules To Live By: How Small Timeless Habits Completely Change Your View On Wealth, Desire And Everyday Vices To Reach Long-Lasting Happiness

“It is only through the destruction of desire that we can attain freedom. Our desires stem from undeveloped character traits such as selfishness and miserliness. Wanting what we want, regardless of its impact on ourselves and others, contradicts achieving moral excellence.”
― Thinknetic, 30 Rules To Live By: How Small Timeless Habits Completely Change Your View On Wealth, Desire And Everyday Vices To Reach Long-Lasting Happiness

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
― Thinknetic, 30 Rules To Live By: How Small Timeless Habits Completely Change Your View On Wealth, Desire And Everyday Vices To Reach Long-Lasting Happiness