When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of feeling a persistent current of low-level shame, you move forward by using the creative possibilities of this moment, your current situation.
– Epictetus
It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
– Epictetus
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
-Seneca the Younger
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
-Seneca the Younger
Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed.
-Marcus Aurelius
If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
– Epictetus
Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
– Epictetus
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!
-Marcus Aurelius
