Life-changing ideas and insights from some of the world's greatest thinkers.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
It’s up to us. We can spend our lives cultivating resentments and cravings or we can explore the path of the warrior—nurturing openmindedness and courage.
Healing is the process of accepting all, then choosing best.
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty, never give in.
Remember that stale air stays in your lungs unless you consciously exhale it. Just keep training yourself to blow out every last little bit.
You don't get depressed, you do it!
As we’ve seen, the stereotype of Stoics being cold and unfeeling just isn’t true. The Stoics, in fact, took love and affection to be the primary human emotion. ... Because of this, it’s no exaggeration to say that Stoic ethics are ultimately based on love.
Every human being who reaches the age of understanding of the purpose of money wishes for it. Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsessions, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.
It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.