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| dc67c2e | It's time to sit down and think about what's truly important to you and then take steps to forsake the rest. Without this, success will not be pleasurable, or nearly as complete as it could be. Or worse, it won't last. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| ae5c61b | Let's pass over to the really rich--how often the occasions they look just like the poor! When they travel abroad they must restrict their baggage, and when haste is necessary, they dismiss their entourage. And those who are in the army, how few of their possessions they get to keep ..." --SENECA, ON CONSOLATION TO HELVIA, 12.1.b-2" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| ba4c5b1 | We can channel this, too. We needn't scramble like we're so often inclined to do when some difficult task sits in front of us. Remember the first time you saw a complicated algebra equation? It was a jumble of symbols and unknowns. But then you stopped, took a deep breath, and broke it down. You isolated the variables, solved for them, and all that was left was the answer. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 1eab737 | It's important to connect the so-called temptation with its actual effects. Once you understand that indulging might actually be worse than resisting, the urge begins to lose its appeal. In this way, self-control becomes the real pleasure, and the temptation becomes the regret. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| f7ecab6 | Ask yourself the following first thing in the morning: What am I lacking in attaining freedom from passion? What for tranquility? What am I? A mere body, estate-holder, or reputation? None of these things. What, then? A rational being. What then is demanded of me? Meditate on your actions. How did I steer away from serenity? What did I do that was unfriendly, unsocial, or uncaring? What did I fail to do in all these things?" --EPICTETUS, DI.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 69d7cb0 | Who then is invincible? The one who cannot be upset by anything outside their reasoned choice." --EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 1.18.21" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 131af18 | I say he hurled himself into the sea because he couldn't live with what he'd done." Anger burned briefly in his friendly face but was quickly snuffed out when another patron called out to him. He snapped the beard back into place. "Turned out he'd mortgaged the pub to the hilt. There were massive debts to clear, so they sold the old cottage to Mark Bowers. He rents it out to holiday-makers now. The girls were happy to sell the pub on to me .. | L.J. Ross | ||
| 2791904 | Erase the false impressions from your mind by constantly saying to yourself, I have it in my soul to keep out any evil, desire or any kind of disturbance--instead, seeing the true nature of things, I will give them only their due. Always remember this power that nature gave you." --MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.29" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 6f25e03 | Many are harmed by fear itself, and many may have come to their fate while dreading fate." --SENECA, OEDIPUS, 992" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 9bd6c6c | Choose not to be harmed--and you won't feel harmed. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 289624f | We must be sure to act with deliberation, boldness, and persistence. Those are the attributes of right and effective action. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 0b59778 | Self-control is a difficult thing, no question. Which is why a popular trick from dieting might be helpful. Some diets allow a "cheat day"--one day per week in which dieters can eat anything and everything they want. Indeed, they're encouraged to write a list during the week of all the foods they craved so they can enjoy them all at once as a treat (the thinking being that if you're eating healthy six out of seven days, you're still ahead)... | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 2b23061 | Ego is stolen. Confidence is earned | Ryan Holiday | ||
| fc7f981 | The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know. -- MARCUS AURELIUS | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 82a440f | You cry, I'm suffering severe pain! Are you then relieved from feeling it, if you bear it in an unmanly way?" --SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 78.17" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 50ce4a0 | A podium and a prison is each a place, one high and the other low, but in either place your freedom of choice can be maintained if you so wish." --EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.6.25" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 791c7ab | The next time someone gets upset near you--crying, yelling, breaking something, being pointed or cruel--watch how quickly this statement will stop them cold: "I hope this is making you feel better." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 13af38b | Don't return to philosophy as a task-master, but as patients seek out relief in a treatment of sore eyes, or a dressing for a burn, or from an ointment. Regarding it this way, you'll obey reason without putting it on display and rest easy in its care." --MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 5.9" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| d378b6e | physically loose and mentally tight. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 5d9c92a | It is quite impossible to unite happiness with a yearning for what we don't have. Happiness has all that it wants, and resembling the well-fed, there shouldn't be hunger or thirst." --EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.24.17" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 8ab238e | Your principles can't be extinguished unless you snuff out the thoughts that feed them, for it's continually in your power to reignite new ones.... It's possible to start living again! See things anew as you once did--that is how to restart life!" --MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.2" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 7320053 | We have the power to hold no opinion about a thing and to not let it upset our state of mind--for things have no natural power to shape our judgments." --MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 6.52" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 33051f0 | The philosophy asserts that virtue (meaning, chiefly, the four cardinal virtues of self-control, courage, justice, and wisdom) is happiness, and it is our perceptions of things--rather than the things themselves--that cause most of our trouble. Stoicism teaches that we can't control or rely on anything outside what Epictetus called our "reasoned choice"--our ability to use our reason to choose how we categorize, respond, and reorient oursel.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| c17b4e0 | So what do we own? Just our lives--and not for long. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 2cd29c7 | The Discipline of Perception (how we see and perceive the world around us) The Discipline of Action (the decisions and actions we take--and to what end) The Discipline of Will (how we deal with the things we cannot change, attain clear and convincing judgment, and come to a true understanding of our place in the world) | Ryan Holiday | ||
| e3c9fd9 | If the hawk is flying to his nest, we two will shoot down the fledgeling with our gilded arrows. | Archery | ||
| 0e4b7f2 | Choice--to do and think right Refusal--of temptation Yearning--to be better Repulsion--of negativity, of bad influences, of what isn't true Preparation--for what lies ahead or whatever may happen Purpose--our guiding principle and highest priority Assent--to be free of deception about what's inside and outside our control (and be ready to accept the latter) | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 15a144a | 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 . . ." E PICTETUS, D ISCOURSES , 2.5.4-5" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 7756cec | T he single most important practice in Stoic philosophy is differentiating between what we can change and what we can't. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| c10d15c | What matters is that you learn how to manage yourself and others, before your industry eats you alive. Micromanagers are egotists who can't manage others and they quickly get overloaded. So do the charismatic visionaries who lose interest when it's time to execute. Worse yet are those who surround themselves with yes-men or sycophants who clean up their messes and create a bubble in which they can't even see how disconnected from reality th.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| b6617f4 | Feel unprotected against the elements or forces or surroundings. Remind yourself how pointless it is to rage and fight and try to one-up those around you. Go and put yourself in touch with the infinite, and end your conscious separation from the world. Reconcile yourself a bit better with the realities of life. Realize how much came before you, and how only wisps of it remain. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 51794ad | The next time you are afraid of some supposedly disastrous outcome, remember that if you don't control your impulses, if you lose your self-control, you may be the very source of the disaster you so fear. It has happened to smarter and more powerful and more successful people. It can happen to us too. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| f24b93a | There's an old line about how if you want to live happy, live hidden. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 0eb5641 | To borrow from Aristotle again, what's difficult is to apply the right amount of pressure, at the right time, in the right way, for the right period of time, in the right car, going in the right direction. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| c36dd86 | When you have a goal, obstacles are actually teaching you how to get where you want to go--carving you a path." Excerpt From: Ryan Holiday. "The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph." iBooks." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| ffe371c | virtue begins with understanding and is fulfilled by courage. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 05467b3 | You could say that failure always arrives uninvited, but through our ego, far too many of us allow it to stick around. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 0fef079 | Remember that today when you try to extend your reach outward--that it's much better and more appropriately directed inward. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| f647e4b | In life, there will be times when we do everything right, perhaps even perfectly. Yet the results will somehow be negative: failure, disrespect, jealousy, or even a resounding yawn from the world. Depending on what motivates us, this response can be crushing. If ego holds sway, we'll accept nothing less than full appreciation. A dangerous attitude because when someone works on a project--whether it's a book or a business or otherwise--at a .. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 73863fb | We have only minimal control over the rewards for our work and effort--other people's validation, recognition, rewards. So what are we going to do? Not be kind, not work hard, not produce, because there is a chance it wouldn't be reciprocated? C'mon. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| e7586d8 | When you let your attention slide for a bit, don't think you will get back a grip on it whenever you wish--instead, bear in mind that because of today's mistake everything that follows will be necessarily worse. . . . Is it possible to be free from error? Not by any means, but it is possible to be a person always stretching to avoid error. For we must be content to at least escape a few mistakes by never letting our attention slide." --EPIC.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 80ffa9b | Aaron] had previously believed that if you came up with a great idea people would use it. But he realized now that you couldn't expect people to come to you; you had to pull them in. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 3ee2a03 | Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. --SHAKESPEARE P | Ryan Holiday | ||
| a52bad3 | Enough of this miserable, whining life. Stop monkeying around! Why are you troubled? What's new here? What's so confounding? The one responsible? Take a good look. Or just the matter itself? Then look at that. There's nothing else to look at. And as far as the gods go, by now you could try being more straightforward and kind. It's the same, whether you've examined these things for a hundred years, or only three." --MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATI.. | Ryan Holiday |