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“Along To-Do list seems intimidating and burdensome—all these things we have to do in the course of a day or a week. But a Get To Do list sounds like a privilege—all the things we’re excited about the opportunity to experience.” —Ryan Holiday

“The more people believe that others can improve their lives, the slower any improvement will occur.” —Leo Tolstoy

“Never try to justify your deeds.” —Leo Tolstoy

“While it’s true that someone can impede our actions, they can’t impede our intentions and our attitudes, which have the power of being conditional and adaptable. For the mind adapts and converts any obstacle to its action into a means of achieving it. That which is an impediment to action is turned to advance action. The obstacle on the path becomes the way.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 5.20

“Calm is contagious.”

Let’s not wish we could turn back time or remake the universe according to our preference. Not when it would be far better and far easier to remake ourselves. —Holiday

The improvement of society can be achieved only by the moral improvement of individuals. —Tolstoy

“Don’t be ashamed of needing help. You have a duty to fulfill just like a soldier on the wall of battle. So what if you are injured and can’t climb up without another soldier’s help?” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.7

Hesiod, the poet, said that “the best treasure is a sparing tongue.”

Unless you yourself are sinless, do not say a single word about the sins of others, but be quiet. —Tolstoy

“Worship is an act which develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God which is expressed in an act of worship.” —Eugene Peterson