Ryan A. Bush > Quotes

“Why are some people perpetually discontent in their lives?”
― Ryan A. Bush, Become Who You Are: A New Theory of Self-Esteem, Human Greatness, and the Opposite of Depression

“And the Love of Fate: Don't demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. —Epictetus, Enchiridion⁴”
― Ryan A. Bush, Become Who You Are: A New Theory of Self-Esteem, Human Greatness, and the Opposite of Depression

“To see them from above: the thousands of animal herds, the rituals, the voyages on calm or stormy seas, the different ways we come into the world, share it with one another, and leave it. Consider the lives led once by others, long ago, the lives to be led by others after you, the lives led even now, in foreign lands. How many people don’t even know your name. How many will soon have forgotten it. How many offer you praise now-and tomorrow, perhaps contempt. - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations,”
― Ryan A. Bush, Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture

“You are as happy as the traits you observe in your own behavior. As happy as the actions you see yourself taking.”
― Ryan A. Bush, Become Who You Are: A New Theory of Self-Esteem, Human Greatness, and the Opposite of Depression

“Stop honoring externals, quit turning yourself into the tool of mere matter, or of people who can supply you or deny you those material things... It is enough if I hold the right idea about poverty, illness and removal from office: all such challenges will only serve my turn. No more, then, should I look for bad, and good, in external conditions. - Epictetus, Discourses”
― Ryan A. Bush, Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture