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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e604ef7 | No need to be too hard on yourself. Hold yourself to a higher standard but not an impossible one. And forgive yourself if and when you slip up. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| f001ffe | At the end of a frustrating exchange, you might find yourself thinking, Ugh, this person is such an idiot. Or asking, Why can't they just do things right? But not everyone has had the advantages that you've had | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 017ddfa | The more forgiving and tolerant you can be of others--the more you can be aware of your various privileges and advantages--the more helpful and patient you will be. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| d8ec0a5 | of all the avenues for curing our negative characteristics, philosophy has existed the longest and helped the most people | Ryan Holiday | ||
| bc1b894 | In struggling with his unfortunate fate, Demosthenes found his true calling: He would be the voice of Athens, its great speaker and conscience. He would be successful precisely because of what he'd been through and how he'd reacted to it. He had channeled his rage and pain into his training, and then later into his speeches, fueling it all with a kind of fierceness and power that could be neither matched nor resisted. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| e86cf03 | If you need help, comrade, just ask. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| aaf0d4e | Remember, "zealot" is just a nice way to say "crazy person." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 8bed83a | How beautifully Plato put it. Whenever you want to talk about people, it's best to take a bird's-eye view and see everything all at once--of gatherings, armies, farms, weddings and divorces, births and deaths, noisy courtrooms or silent spaces, every foreign people, holidays, memorials, markets--all blended together and arranged in a pairing of opposites." --MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.48" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 231228f | We like to say that we don't get to choose our parents, that they were given by chance--yet we can truly choose whose children we'd like to be." --SENECA" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| e5c55cb | Where is Good? In our reasoned choices. Where is Evil? In our reasoned choices. Where is that which is neither Good nor Evil? In the things outside of our own reasoned choice." --EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.16.1" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 0f569df | We are prepared for failure and ready for success. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 7294083 | Focusing exclusively on what is in our power magnifies and enhances our power. But every ounce of energy directed at things we can't actually influence is wasted--self-indulgent and self-destructive. So much power--ours, and other people's--is frittered away in this manner. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| dc876bf | This is why we shouldn't listen too closely to what other people say (or to what the voice in our head says, either). We'll find ourselves erring on the side of accomplishing nothing. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| f1b6215 | every soul is deprived of truth against its will. The same holds true for justice, self-control, goodwill to others, and every similar virtue. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| b020e11 | That's Stoic joy--the joy that comes from purpose, excellence, and duty. It's a serious thing--far more serious than a smile or a chipper voice. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 05327d7 | Who wants to be the person who can never let go? Is there so little meaning in your life that your only pursuit is work until you're eventually carted off in a coffin? Take pride in your work. But it is not all. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 5645c1d | There was always the allure of another, better house. There were always distractions, always so many things to do--and the writer's block and insecurity that plagues creative types traveled with him wherever he went. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 1e57229 | We tell ourselves that we need the right setup before we finally buckle down and get serious. Or we tell ourselves that some vacation or time alone will be good for a relationship or an ailment. This is self-deceit at its finest. It's far better that we become pragmatic and adaptable--able to do what we need to do anywhere, anytime. The place to do your work, to live the good life, is here. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 7a6ad8f | How much more harmful are the consequences of anger and grief than the circumstances that aroused them in us!" --MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 11.18.8" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 67c7858 | shouldn't we be just as invested in building ourselves as we would be to any company? | Ryan Holiday | ||
| c73c9e8 | 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" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 2dd4201 | Respect the craft and make something beautiful. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| c929a3e | Pride takes a minor accomplishment and makes it feel like a major one. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 76637d7 | An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 7426573 | Apply yourself to thinking through difficulties-- | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 3d7cb73 | Success is intoxicating, yet to sustain it requires sobriety. We can't keep learning if we think we already know everything. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| a3f4a40 | One might say that the ability to evaluate one's own ability is the most important skill of all. Without it, improvement is impossible. | self-improvement | Ryan Holiday | |
| a6c606e | We're not trying to ace tests or impress teachers. We are reading and studying to live, to be good human beings--always and forever. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| f7113f2 | It takes a special kind of humility to grasp that you know less, even as you know and grasp more and more. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 19d06aa | Humility engenders learning because it beats back the arrogance that puts blinders on. It leaves you open for truths to reveal themselves. You don't stand in your own way. . . . Do you know how you can tell when someone is truly humble? I believe there's one simple test: because they consistently observe and listen, the humble improve. They don't assume, 'I know the way. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| cc8f4bd | Take it. Eat it until you're sick. Endure it. Quietly brush it off and work harder. Play the game. Ignore the noise; for the love of God, do not let it distract you. Restraint is a difficult skill but a critical one. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| a9269f5 | The market was inherently unpredictable and often vicious-- | Ryan Holiday | ||
| ddc2db1 | only the rational and disciplined mind could hope to profit from | Ryan Holiday | ||
| ddf2fbb | For the rest of his life, the greater the chaos, the calmer Rockefeller would become, | Ryan Holiday | ||
| a8f6467 | Not many had trained themselves to see opportunity inside this obstacle, | Ryan Holiday | ||
| e9a00e7 | that what befell them was not unsalvageable misfortune but the gift of education-- | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 01f80a0 | You will come across obstacles in life--fair and unfair. And you will discover, time and time again, | Ryan Holiday | ||
| ca86b6a | You must realize: Nothing makes us feel this way; we choose to give in to such feelings. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 826c180 | Or, like Rockefeller, choose not to. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 1e425e0 | And it is precisely at this divergence--between how Rockefeller perceived his environment | Ryan Holiday | ||
| f7d9efb | The more you say," Robert Greene has written, "the more likely you are to say something foolish." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 9a81055 | It's that kind of energy and creativity and above all faith in yourself that you need right now. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 924ddae | Whether you live in the snake pit of Washington, D.C., work among the materialism of Wall Street, or grew up in a closed-minded small town, you can live well. Plenty of others have. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 4206965 | Don't let perfect be the enemy of good enough"?" | Ryan Holiday |