This is helping me a lot today, it's something I come back to regularly but it's particularly helpful this week:

“The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own…” — Epictetus, Discourses, 2.5.4–5

And summarised by Ryan Holiday:

"What you can control, as always, is how you respond. What matters is not what other people are doing or have done, but what you do."

#stoic #selfcare