The stoics are pretty clear that we control very little on our lives, but we do control the one thing that will make the biggest impact on our lives -...
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. — Lao Tzu Wha...
Today's episode is about stoics and emotions. So earlier this week on reddit, in the stoicism subreddit, somebody posted a link to an article in Psy...
When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. The...
One of the hardest things for us to do, though it is one of the most important things we will ever learn, is to accept ourselves for exactly who we ar...
"When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can he...
Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it. — Epictetus. The hardest thing about any philosophy is being able to apply what you learn in real life. We...
"Everyone faces up more bravely to a thing for which he has long prepared himself, sufferings, even, being withstood if they have been trained for in...
"Anxieties can only come from your internal judgement." — Marcus Aurelius We all have things in our lives that seems to stop us from completing things...
“To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.” ― Seneca Life is...