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“What matters, in other words, isn’t what we feel but how we respond to those feelings.”
― How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
― How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
“Power is the ability to direct or influence the behavior of others. On a large scale, power is the capacity to set the public agenda—to frame big choices, to influence legislators, and to get laws enacted or prevent them from being enacted, to assert one’s will on the world.”
― The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
― The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
“I figured that if I did at least four things each day—one for my health, one for my creativity, one for my family, and one for my productivity—my own personal world would keep spinning along.”
― The 4% Fix
― The 4% Fix
“can be so easy to get distracted by, even consumed by, horrible news from all over the world. The proper response of the Stoic to these events is not to not care, but mindless, meaningless sympathy does very little either (and comes at the cost of one’s own serenity, in most cases).”
― The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
― The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
“As the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr has written, “The most common form of hypocrisy among the privileged classes is to assume that their privileges are the just payments with which society rewards specially useful or meritorious functions,” while accusing the underprivileged of “lacking what they have been denied the right to acquire.”
― The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
― The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
Darin’s 2025 Year in Books
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