April 2nd: Be Wary of What You Let In
“Drama, combat, terror, numbness, and subservience—every day these things wipe out your sacred principles, whenever your mind entertains them uncritically or lets them slip in.”
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 10.9
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Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman
What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.
— Maya Angelou
April 1st: The Color of Your Thoughts
“Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought, for the human spirit is colored by such impressions.”
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 5.16
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Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman
Life is a song–sing it. Life is a game–play it. Life is a challenge–meet it. Life is a dream–realize it. Life is a sacrifice–offer it. Life is love–enjoy it.
— Sarojini Naidu
You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.
— Marcus Aurelius
March 31st: You’re a Product of Your Training
“Chasing what can’t be done is madness. But the base person is unable to do anything else.”
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 5.17
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Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman
March 30th: Reason in All Things
“Hurry to your own ruling reason, to the reason of the Whole, and to your neighbor’s. To your own mind to make it just; to the mind of the Whole to remember your place in it; and to your neighbor’s mind to learn whether it’s ignorant or of sound knowledge—while recognizing it’s like yours.”
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 9.22
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Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman
A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
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March 29th: Why Do You Need To Impress These People Again?
“If you should ever turn your will to things outside your control in order to impress someone, be sure that you have wrecked your whole purpose in life. Be content, then, to be a philosopher in all that you do, and if you wish also to be seen as one, show yourself first that you are and you will succeed.”
—Epictetus, Enchiridion, 23
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Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
— Epictetus
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