Michael
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“circumstances are incapable of considering or caring for your feelings, your anxiety, or your excitement. They don’t care about your reaction. They are not people. So stop acting like getting worked up is having an impact on a given situation. Situations don’t care at all.”
― 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
“To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden. — SENECA”
― Your Daily Dose Of Stoic Wisdom: 30 Days Of Quotes To Inspire And Guide The Modern-Day Stoic
― Your Daily Dose Of Stoic Wisdom: 30 Days Of Quotes To Inspire And Guide The Modern-Day Stoic
“A mind that isn’t in control of itself, that doesn’t understand its power to regulate itself, will be jerked around by external events and unquestioned impulses.”
― The Daily Stoic
― The Daily Stoic
“To imagine that we are solely, or even primarily, responsible for the successes and failures of our children is a narcissistic myth.”
― Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now
― Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now
“You shouldn’t give circumstances the power to rouse anger, for they don’t care at all.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.38”
― The Daily Stoic
― The Daily Stoic
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