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“A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“You will only get one shot at today. You have only twenty-four hours with which to take it. And then it is gone and lost forever. Will you fully inhbit all of today? Will you call out, "I've got this," and do your very best to be your very best? What will you manage to make of today before it slips from you fingers and becomes the past? When someone asks you what you did yesterday, do you really want the answer to be "nothing"?”
― Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

“Most of us are “living the dream”—living, that is, the dream we once had for ourselves. We might be married to the person we once dreamed of marrying, have the children and job we once dreamed of having, and own the car we once dreamed of buying. But thanks to hedonic adaptation, as soon as we find ourselves living the life of our dreams, we start taking that life for granted. Instead of sepnding our days enjoying our good fortune.”
― William B. Irvine, A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy