“Reason shows us there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” — Seneca One of the core tenants of Stoicism is to be aware of, and...
"Wild animals run from the dangers they actually see, and once they have escaped them worry no more. We however are tormented alike by what is past an...
"Don’t set your mind on things you don’t possess as if they were yours, but count the blessings you actually possess and think how much you would desi...
“The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.” —Marcus Aurelius For peo...
“Don’t be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you’ve been wounded and you need a comrade to...
One thing that fascinates me about humans is our desire to find the easy way to do almost anything. So many of the things that we think of as necessit...
How often do we complain about the things that we don’t like about in life? There are so many things to complain about in life. The Pandemic. The gove...
“It is our own opinions that disturb us. Take away these opinions and resolve to dismiss your judgment about an act as if it were something grievous,...
I have a card in my office that I look at from time to time. It says, “Win or learn, then you never lose.” I have it sitting on my desk as a daily rem...
“Some things are within our power, while others are not. Within our power are opinion, motivation, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever is of ou...
