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If an unjust prison sentence can be not only salvaged but transformative and beneficial, then for our purposes,
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To prevent becoming overwhelmed by the world around us, we must, as the ancients practiced, learn how to limit our passions and their control over our lives.
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One does not magically get one's act together--it is a matter of many individual choices. It's a matter of getting up at the right time, making your bed, resisting shortcuts, investing in yourself, doing your work. And make no mistake: while the individual action is small, its cumulative impact is not.
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learn how to limit our passions and their control over our lives.
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In other words, through our perception of events, we are complicit in the creation--as well as the destruction--of
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destruction--of every one of our obstacles.
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Again, the event is the same: Someone messed up. But the evaluation and the outcome are different.
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With one approach you took advantage; with the other you succumbed to anger or fear.
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Just because your mind tells you that something is awful or evil or unplanned or otherwise negative doesn't mean you have to agree.
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doesn't mean you have to agree. Just
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We can stop seeing the "problems" in front of us as problems."
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Our safety is not truly at risk here--there is little danger that we will starve or that violence will break out--
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Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation--
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without the pestilence of panic or fear. Rockefeller
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We can see disaster rationally. Or rather, like Rockefeller, we can see opportunity in every disaster,
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and transform that negative situation into an education, a skill set, or a fortune.
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Seen properly, everything that happens--be it an economic crash or a personal tragedy--is a chance to move forward.
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To steady our nerves To ignore what disturbs or limits others To place things in perspective To revert to the present moment To focus on what can be controlled
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To revert to the present moment To focus on what can be controlled
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We decide whether we'll assent or reject. No one can force us to give up or to believe something that is untrue
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our purposes, nothing we'll experience is likely without potential benefit.
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To one person a situation may be negative. To another, that same situation may be positive.
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Instead, she simply chose to see each situation for what it could be--
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today, will you be part of the problem or part of the solution? Will you hear the wisdom of the world or drown it out with more noise?
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That on which you so pride yourself will be your ruin," Montaigne"
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I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.
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I can't call a person a hard worker just because I hear they read and write, even if working at it all night. Until I know what a person is working for, I can't deem them industrious. . . . I can if the end they work for is their own ruling principle, having it be and remain in constant harmony with Nature." --EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 4.4.41; 43 What are the chances that the busiest person you know is actually the most productive? We tend to ..
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Even one minute without playing the blame game is progress in the art of living.
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Humble in our aspirations Gracious in our success Resilient in our failures
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We can learn to perceive things differently, to cut through the illusions that others believe or fear.
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Succumbing to the self-pity and "woe is me" narrative accomplishes nothing--nothing except sapping you of the energy and motivation you need to do something about your problem."
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To the youngster talking nonsense Zeno said, 'The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is so we might listen more and talk less.' " --DIOGENES LAERTIUS, LIVES OF EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS, 7.1.23"
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think of the cold sweat when you're stressed about money,
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Today, make sure you take a walk. And in the future, when you get stressed or overwhelmed, take a walk. When you have a tough problem to solve or a decision to make, take a walk. When you want to be creative, take a walk. When you need to get some air, take a walk. When you have a phone call to make, take a walk. When you need some exercise, take a long walk. When you have a meeting or a friend over, take a walk together. Nourish yourself a..
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you've got this.
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We should take wandering outdoor walks, so that the mind might be nourished and refreshed by the open air and deep breathing." --SENECA, ON TRANQUILITY OF MIND"
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Every event has two handles--one by which it can be carried, and one by which it can't. If your brother does you wrong, don't grab it by his wronging, because this is the handle incapable of lifting it. Instead, use the other--that he is your brother, that you were raised together, and then you will have hold of the handle that carries." --EPICTETUS, ENCHIRIDION, 43"
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We decide what we will make of each and every situation. We decide whether we'll break or whether we'll resist.
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instill calm--not by force but by example.
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Don't be the agitator, the paranoid, the worrier, or the irrational. Be the calm, not the liability.
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When you want to be creative, take a walk. When you need to get some air, take a walk. When you have a phone call to make, take a walk. When you need some exercise, take a long walk. When you have a meeting or a friend over, take a walk together. Nourish yourself and your mind and solve your problems along the way.
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Samuel Zemurray.
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Perspective is everything.
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That is, when you can break apart something, or look at it from some new angle, it loses its power over you.
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