Stop Getting Ready To Live And Live

“Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: It snatches away each day as it comes and denies us…...

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Accept Everything, But Don’t Be Passive

I love climbing up a good big and scary mountain. I hate, with all my heart though, the alpine morning.…

Have you ever done morning affirmations? Like, “I’m awesome, I’m awesome, I’m awesome, ad infinitum”? I have. I don’t believe…...

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“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.”― Epictetus The…

It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking…...

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“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”― Marcus Aurelius I quit…

“Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.” Buddha The man burning in the picture above is Thich Quang Duc. He was…...

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Epictetus was a slave. That makes him interestingly different from the other prominent Stoics Marcus Aurelius and Seneca. Check out…

“Well-being is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.”

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“We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us…