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Daily Stoic 🗿In your actions, don’t procrastinate. In your conversations, don’t confuse. In your thoughts, don’t wander. In your soul, don’t be passive or aggressive. In your life, don’t be all about business.
— Marcus Aurelius
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present
— Marcus Aurelius
April 20th: Real Good Is Simple
“Here’s a way to think about what the masses regard as being ‘good’ things. If you would first start by setting your mind upon things that are unquestionably good—wisdom, self-control, justice, courage—with this preconception you’ll no longer be able to listen to the popular refrain that there are too many good things to experience in a lifetime.”
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 5.12
Excerpt From
The Daily #Stoic
Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman
El SaltybananieI'm not into religion, spirituality, Internet influencers, [FILL-IN-THE-BLANK]-maxxing, fad diets, or any of the silly wellness trends and/or pop psychology mumbo-jumbo of the moment that is/are strewn across the Internet.
That said, many of the stoic memes that appear on my Substack feed seem remarkably rational and common sensical--including, for example, the ones below. Take it #FWIW, and thank you for your attention to this matter.
As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.
— Confucius
April 19th: OUR SPHERE OF IMPULSES
“Epictetus says we must discover the missing art of assent and pay special attention to the sphere of our impulses—that they are subject to reservation, to the common good, and that they are in proportion to actual worth.”
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 11.37
Excerpt From
The Daily #Stoic
Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman
