The Daily Stoic for September 26th. What Time Off Is For. “Leisure without study is death– a tomb for the living person.”SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 82.4 All of us deserve a vacation. Most especially you. And everyone has their ideal way…
The Daily Stoic for September 13th. Protecting Our Inner Fortress From Fear. “No, it is events that give rise to fear—when another has power over them or can prevent them, that person becomes able to inspire fear. How is the fortress destroyed?…
The Daily Stoic for August 21st. Don’t Be Miserable In Advance. “It’s ruinous for the soul to be anxious about the future and miserable in advance of misery, engulfed by anxiety that the things it desires might remain its own until the…
The Daily Stoic for August 5th. Silence is Strength. “Silence is a lesson learned from the may sufferings of life“ —SENECA, THYESTES, 309 Can you recall a time wherein you were so angry that you said some bad things, and then after you’ve…
The Daily Stoic for July 15th. Doing the right thing is enough. “When you’ve done well and another has benefited by it, why like a fool do you look for a third thing on top—credit for the good deed or a favor…
The Daily Stoic for July 3rd. Turn ‘Have To’ into ‘Get To’ “The task of a philosopher: we should bring our will into harmony with whatever happens, so that nothing happens against our will and nothing that we wish for fails to…
The Daily Stoic for June 27th. Adversity Reveals. “How does it help, my husband, to make misfortune heavier by complaining about it? This is more fit for a king- to seize your adversities head on. The more precarious his situation, the more…
The Daily Stoic for June 22nd. The definition of Insanity. But before I dive into it, I know it’s already way pass June 22nd and I’m still in this day. Things happen (as always) and I was not able to manage read…
The Daily Stoic for June 13th. Life is a battlefield. “Don’t you know life is like a military campaign? One must serve on watch, another in reconnaissance, another on the front line… So it is for us—each person’s life is…
I read this quote from the Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday. It says: “The fact that you can think, the fact that you can read this book, the fact that you are able to reason in and out of situations – all of…