Management? That’s the reward for all your creativity and new ideas? becoming the Man? Yes- in the end, we all face becoming the adult supervision we originally rebelled against.
Perceive things as they are, leave no option unexplored, then stand strong and transform whatever can’t be changed.
I had a horror of a danger of arrogance. What a pitiful thing it is when a man lets a little temporary success spoil him, warp his judgement, and he forgets what he is.
Solo hay una cosa que se beneficia del ego: la comodidad.
There’s a quip from the historian Will Durant, that a nation is born stoic and dies epicurean.
Stop looking for angels, and start looking for angles.
Looking at the beautiful expanse of the sky is an antidote to the nagging pettiness of earthly concerns. And it is good and sobering to lose yourself in that as often as you can.
Constantly train your intellect, he told him, “for the greatest thing in the smallest compass is a sound mind in a human body.
Far too many ambitious undertakings fail for preventable reasons. Far too many people don’t have a backup plan because they refuse to consider that something might not go exactly as they wish.
Many are harmed by fear itself, and many may have come to their fate while dreading fate.” – SENECA, OEDIPUS, 992.
Receive feedback, maintain hunger, and chart a proper course in life. Pride dulls their senses. Or in other cases, it tunes up other negative parts of ourselves: sensitivity, a persecution complex, the ability to make everything about us.
So if you need an extra boost to get out of bed this morning, if you need something more than caffeine can offer, use this. People are depending on you. Your purpose is to help us render this great work together. And we’re waiting and excited for you to show up.
When setbacks come, we respond by working twice as hard.
Epictetus is reminding you that serenity and stability are results of your choices and judgment, not your environment.
Hay algo bueno en todo si lo buscamos.
Philosophy calls for simple living, but not for penance – it’s quite possible to be simple without being crude.
Although we speak of attaining the dao,” Lao Tzu once said, “there is really nothing to obtain.” Or to borrow a master’s reply to a student who asked where he might find Zen: “You are seeking for an ox while you are yourself on it.
You’ll have far better luck toughening yourself up than you ever will trying to take the teeth out of a world that is – at best – indifferent to your existence. Whether we were born weak like Roosevelt or we are currently experiencing good times, we should always prepare for things to get tough. In our own way, in our own fight, we are all in the same position Roosevelt was in.
No one is alone, in suffering or in joy.
The single most important practice in Stoic philosophy is differentiating between what we can change and what we can’t. What we have influence over and what we do not.