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Don't get hit twice! 🎯

Life is the First Arrow (the stuff we can't control: rudeness, breakdowns, failures). It's unavoidable.

The Second Arrow is the real killer: the self-inflicted pain of rumination, self-blame, and resentment. We choose the suffering after the fact.

The first arrow is coming. Let's practice avoiding the second one. (I know, it's hard! 😅)

#TwoArrows #Stoicism #Mindfulness #SelfControl

WIST Quotations 2d ago

A quotation from Carl Sandburg

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) American poet, biographer
(Attributed)

More info about this quote: wist.info/sandburg-carl/79972/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlsandburg #autonomy #lifespan #lifetime #selfcontrol #selfdirection #time #value #passageoftime #independence

WIST Quotations 5d ago

A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

If you suffer distress because of some external cause, it is not the thing itself that troubles you but your judgment on it, and it is within your power to cancel that judgment at any moment.

[Εἰ μὲν διά τι τῶν ἐκτὸς λυπῇ, οὐκ ἐκεῖνό σοι ἐνοχλεῖ, ἀλλὰ τὸ σὸν περὶ αὐτοῦ κρῖμα, τοῦτο δὲ ἤδη ἐξαλεῖψαι ἐπὶ σοί ἐστιν.]

Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 8, ch. 47 (8.47) (AD 161-180) [tr. Hard (1997 ed.)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2669…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #aggravation #distress #disturbance #externality #judgment #perception #reaction #selfcontrol #selfdiscipline #trouble #unhappiness #vexation

DaLetra 6d ago

Letra da música “Self Control” de Frank Ocean
#FrankOcean #SelfControl
https://daletra.com.br/frank-ocean/letra/self-control.html

Sanjay Mohindroo Oct 20

Sometimes silence protects more than words can express. Thoughts? #Leadership #EmotionalIntelligence #Mindfulness #Communication #Wisdom #SelfControl #ProfessionalGrowth
https://medium.com/@mohindroo.sanjay66/the-power-of-whats-not-said-91e9ec083d83

The Power of What’s Not Said

Sanjay Mohindroo

Medium

N-gated Hacker News Oct 19

🚨 Breaking news: A teenager creates yet another app to save us from our own lack of self-control 📱. Apparently, scanning a QR code is the new magic trick to conquer #procrastination 🙄. A revolutionary invention for those of us who find swiping too difficult! 🎩✨
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/recode-screen-time-control/id6752352978 #teenapp #QRcode #selfcontrol #innovation #HackerNews #ngated

‎Recode: Screen Time Control

‎I built Recode because I was losing myself in endless scrolling. I felt distracted all day, drained at night, and ashamed of how little I got done. Other screen time apps were too easy to bypass, so I built Recode for myself, and it worked. Even in its demo version, the simple act of requiring a QR…

App Store

WIST Quotations Oct 17

A quotation from Horace

Anger’s a short frenzy, curb thy Soul,
And check thy rage, which must be rul’d or rule:
Use all thy Art, with all thy force restrain,
And take the strongest Bit, and firmest Rein.

[Ira furor brevis est: animum rege; qui nisi paret
imperat; hunc frenis, hunc tu compesce catena.]

Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 62ff (1.2.62) (20 BC) [tr. Creech (1684)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/1953/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #anger #badtemper #fury #insanity #madness #rage #selfcontrol #selfrestraint #tantrum #temper #wrath

ck_wakaba Oct 17

分からないことだらけの人生で、分からないことが当たり前、分からないことすら分かっていないという状態で生きることが当たり前でしたが、この状態がいかに不自由な生き方なのか、それすらも分からないという無知の中に閉じ込められていたのです。
どうして自分の無知を気づけたかというと、「真理」を聞いたからです。
善悪も真偽も何も分からず、やりたい放題やっていましたが、真理を聞くことで絶対に正しい判断基準を少しずつでも身につけることでセルフコントロールできるようになりました。これは我慢をするわけではなく、真っ直ぐに生きられるようになったからかえって生きやすくなったのです。
お金でも仕事でも学歴でもなく、「真理」こそが私の命を維持し、好転させてくれたのです。
「真理」なしでは生きていけないことを断言できます。 #news #god #truth #selfcontrol
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RAPT | 新・貴方に天国から降り注がれる音楽を

WIST Quotations Oct 16

A quotation from Moliere

DON JUAN: I can’t, in short, deny my heart to anything that strikes me as lovable, and the sight of a beautiful face so masters me that, if I had a thousand hearts, I’d give them all. There is, besides, an inexpressible charm in the first stirrings of a new passion, and the whole pleasure of love lies in change.

[DOM JUAN: Quoi qu’il en soit, je ne puis refuser mon cœur à tout ce que je vois d’aimable; et, dès qu’un beau visage me le demande, si j’en avais dix mille, je les donnerais tous. Les inclinations naissantes, après tout, ont des charmes inexplicables, et tout le plaisir de l’amour est dans le changement.]

Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Don Juan [Dom Juan], Act 1, sc. 2 (1665) [tr. Wilbur (2001)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/moliere/5657/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #moliere #donjuan #beauty #change #heart #impulse #love #passion #selfcontrol #variety

Don Juan [Dom Juan], Act 1, sc. 2 (1665) [tr. Wilbur (2001)] - Moliere | WIST Quotations

DON JUAN: I can't, in short, deny my heart to anything that strikes me as lovable, and the sight of a beautiful face so masters me that, if I had a thousand hearts, I'd give them all. There is, besides, an inexpressible charm in the first stirrings of a new…

WIST Quotations

Bishop Shammah Womack El Oct 16

You Can Stop Now

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is stop. When your mind keeps pushing you toward the same habits, same urges, same cycles — remember: you have the power to pause. This short message reminds you that peace begins the moment you realize… you can stop now. 🌿💭 #SelfControl #Mindfulness #Healing from Bishop Shammah Womack-El

https://bishopshammahwomackel.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/you-can-stop-now/

You Can Stop Now

Bishop Shammah Womack-El