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From Marcus Aurelius: “Think of the life you have lived until now as over and, as a dead man, see what’s left as a bonus and live it according to Nature. Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own, for what could be more fitting?”

Today, I will remember that things don’t happen to me. They just happen. I should not be offended when faced with difficult things.

From Marcus Aurelius: “Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been.”

From Seneca: “People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.”

Here’s one from Epictetus. “If you want something good, get it yourself.”

My message to myself today: Figure out what must be done and do it. Anything else is childish.

Here’s one from Marcus Aurelius. “How trivial the things we want so passionately are.”

I sometimes fall into the trap of half-heartedly pursuing many interests at once, producing suboptimal results. Here’s a relevant passage from Epictetus’s Enchiridion. “In every affair consider what precedes and follows, and then undertake it. Otherwise you will begin with spirit; but not having thought of the consequences, when some of them appear you will shamefully desist. “IContinue reading “Stoic Quote of the Day 07/08/2023”

Here’s one from Seneca: “The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”

From Epictetus: “The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.”