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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 37ed454 | Even one minute without playing the blame game is progress in the art of living. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 765fc76 | Humble in our aspirations Gracious in our success Resilient in our failures | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 7f74478 | We can learn to perceive things differently, to cut through the illusions that others believe or fear. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| c33d704 | 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." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 19a4849 | 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" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| d9e4cf2 | think of the cold sweat when you're stressed about money, | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 06c73af | 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.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 7e4d5e1 | you've got this. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| e5dab78 | 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" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| ce3acf9 | 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" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| c37f64f | We decide what we will make of each and every situation. We decide whether we'll break or whether we'll resist. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| e939e0d | instill calm--not by force but by example. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 290ab76 | Don't be the agitator, the paranoid, the worrier, or the irrational. Be the calm, not the liability. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 9850f35 | 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. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 6353b82 | Samuel Zemurray. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 263fede | Perspective is everything. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 36681f0 | That is, when you can break apart something, or look at it from some new angle, it loses its power over you. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 6827722 | That we are scared of obstacles because our perspective is wrong--that a simple shift in perspective can change our reaction entirely | Ryan Holiday | ||
| b275708 | Lots of people," as the poet and artist Austin Kleon puts it, "want to be the noun without doing the verb." To make something great, what's required is need. As in, I need to do this. I have to. I can't not." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| d4b23cf | What we can do is limit and expand our perspective to whatever will keep us calmest and most ready for the task at hand. Think of it as selective editing--not to deceive others, but to properly orient ourselves. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| d20ee8e | It doesn't matter whether this is the worst time to be alive or the best, whether you're in a good job market or a bad one, or that the obstacle you face is intimidating or burdensome. What matters is that right now is right now. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| f997b71 | The implications of our obstacle are theoretical--they exist in the past and the future. We live in the moment. And the more we embrace that, the easier the obstacle will be to face and move. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 3306be5 | One thing is certain. It's not simply a matter of saying: Oh, I'll live in the present. You have to work at it. Catch your mind when it wanders--don't let it get away from you. Discard distracting thoughts. Leave things well enough alone--no matter how much you feel like doing otherwise. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 48927ff | Remember that this moment is not your life, it's just a moment in your life. Focus on what is in front of you, right now. Ignore what it "represents" or it "means" or "why it happened to you." There is plenty else going on right here to care about any of that." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| b7820d4 | Since the vast majority of our words and actions are unnecessary, corralling them will create an abundance of leisure and tranquility. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| bac89d1 | we shouldn't forget at each moment to ask, is this one of the unnecessary things? | Ryan Holiday | ||
| af26522 | Though of course we don't control reality, our perceptions do influence it. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 573ca82 | It's one thing to not be overwhelmed by obstacles, or discouraged or upset by them. This is something that few are able to do. But after you have controlled your emotions, and you can see objectively and stand steadily, the next step becomes possible: a mental flip, so you're looking not at the obstacle but at the opportunity within it. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| b563832 | It's a huge step forward to realize that the worst thing to happen is never the event, but the event and losing your head. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| ef6ed44 | As Laura Ingalls Wilder put it: "There is good in everything, if only we look for it." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 11970e3 | Mike Tyson, who, reflecting on the collapse of his fortune and fame, told a reporter, "If you're not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| d4aec03 | They start. Anywhere. Anyhow. They don't care if the conditions are perfect or if they're being slighted. Because they know that once they get started, if they can just get some momentum, they can make it work. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 2cd7ac6 | Life can be frustrating. Oftentimes we know what our problems are. We may even know what to do about them. But we fear that taking action is too risky, that we don't have the experience or that it's not how we pictured it or because it's too expensive, because it's too soon, because we think something better might come along, because it might not work. And you know what happens as a result? Nothing. We do nothing. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 06b4c87 | We often assume that the world moves at our leisure. We delay when we should initiate. We jog when we should be running or, better yet, sprinting. And then we're shocked--shocked!--when nothing big ever happens, when opportunities never show up, when new obstacles begin to pile up, or the enemies finally get their act together. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 32263f2 | Too often we react emotionally, get despondent, and lose our perspective. All that does is turn bad things into really bad things. Unhelpful perceptions can invade our minds--that sacred place of reason, action and will--and throw off our compass. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 0b95df6 | When you worry, ask yourself, 'What am I choosing to not see right now?' What important things are you missing because you chose worry over introspection, alertness or wisdom? | Ryan Holiday | ||
| c327df9 | Just don't lie to yourself by conflating emoting about a problem and dealing with it. Because they are as different as sleeping and waking. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 85a43c6 | You can always remind yourself: I am in control, not my emotions. I see what's really going on here. I'm not going to get excited or upset. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 97a91b5 | We defeat emotions with logic, or at least that's the idea. Logic is questions and statements. With enough of them, we get to root causes (which are always easier to deal with). | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 4c1aae4 | seeing pictures of pretty clothes in Jackie magazine that she'd never be able to buy. She'd hated seeing adverts for summer holidays on the telly, in far off places they'd never be able to visit. She hated seeing the Queen giving her ruddy speech from her golden palace, the likes of which she'd never know. What made them so much better? Soon enough, she'd realised that all those people she envied weren't better, they were just smarter. They.. | L.J. Ross | ||
| a7effa1 | Blessings and burdens are not mutually exclusive. It's a lot more complicated. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| d168dfc | You're becoming who you are going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 1f53fba | It doesn't make you a bad person to want to be remembered. To want to make it to the top. To provide for yourself and your family. After all, that's all part of the allure. There is a balance. Soccer coach Tony Adams expresses it well. Play for the name on the front of the jersey, he says, and they'll remember the name on the back. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| c68420a | We must understand that we are a small part of an interconnected universe. On top of all this, we have to build an organization and a system around what we do--one that is about the work and not about us. | Ryan Holiday |