Paul Gilfoy

“To leave the distracted masses to join the focused few, I’m arguing, is a transformative experience. The deep life, of course, is not for everybody. It requires hard work and drastic changes to your habits. For many, there’s a comfort in the artificial busyness of rapid e-mail messaging and social media posturing, while the deep life demands that you leave much of that behind. There’s also an uneasiness that surrounds any effort to produce the best things you’re capable of producing, as this forces you to confront the possibility that your best is not (yet) that good. It’s safer to comment on our culture than to step into the Rooseveltian ring and attempt to wrestle it into something better.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“A man’s mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength: as the sense of pain is a characteristic of weakness, so also is anger. he who yields to pain and he who yields to anger, both are wounded and both submit.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“Pain cannot be intolerable and everlasting if you bear in mind that it must have its own limits, and if you add nothing to it by your imagination”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance and you shall then be ready to part from them with equal composure”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations