Unshakable Freedom Quotes

“Knowledge is important, but practice is more important.”
― Chuck Chakrapani, Unshakable Freedom: Ancient Stoic Secrets Applied to Modern Life

“Adapt to cold, heat, thirst, hunger, plain food, a hard bed, abstinence from pleasure and endurance of strenuous labor.”
― Chuck Chakrapani, Unshakable Freedom: Ancient Stoic Secrets Applied to Modern Life

“We believe something will make us happy. Once we get it, we think something else will make us happy. When we get that something else, we crave something else again. Whenever we get what we want, we are happy – for a while. Then we go back to our initial level of happiness. This is called the hedonic treadmill.”
― Chuck Chakrapani, Unshakable Freedom: Ancient Stoic Secrets Applied to Modern Life

“The struggle is great, the task divine, to win a kingdom, to win freedom, happiness, to win serenity of mind.”
― Chuck Chakrapani, Unshakable Freedom: Ancient Stoic Secrets Applied to Modern Life

“The Stoic would say that external things are a part of reality, and therefore they are neither good nor bad. Since we don’t control them, we should be indifferent to them. External things are givens, and we find freedom and happiness using what is under our control. As Epictetus put it, “It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”[21]”
― Chuck Chakrapani, Unshakable Freedom: Ancient Stoic Secrets Applied to Modern Life