SETBACKS LEAD TO OPPORTUNITY
"A setback has often cleared the way for greater prosperity. Many things have fallen only to rise to more exalted heights."
SENECA
SUFFERING CAN BE BEAUTIFUL
"Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through the greatness of mind."
ARISTOTLE
Separate internal and external matters
"The chief task in life is simply this to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself, which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control."
EPICTETUS
TURN SETBACKS INTO ACHIEVEMENTS
"Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around - it turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself - so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal."
MARCUS AURELIUS
EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing because an artful life requires being prepared to meet and withstand sudden and unexpected attacks."
MARCUS AURELIUS
PERSIST AND RESIST
"If anyone would take two words to heart and take pains to govern and watch over themselves by them they will live an impeccable and immensely tranquil life. The two words are persisting and resist."
EPICTETUS
FOCUS
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
ARISTOTLE
YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE FREEDOM OF CHOICE
"You can bind up my leg, but not even Zeus has the power to break my freedom of choice."
EPICTETUS
RESPOND POSITIVELY TO SETBACKS
"We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them."
EPICTETUS
STOP COMPLAINING
"If it's endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining."
MARCUS AURELIUS
LIVE IN THE PRESENT
"The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable."
SENECA
CONTROL THE IMAGINATION
"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
SENECA
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10. KEEP THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE
"What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb, us but our interpretation of their significance."
- EPICTETUS
09. CONTROL YOUR EMOTIONS
"To be stoic is notto be emotionless, but to remain unaffected by your emotions."
- JAMES PIERCE
08. DIFFICULTIES MAKE YOU STRONGER
"Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that god, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? so that you may become an Olympic conqueror, but it is not accomplished without sweat."
- EPICTETUS
07. ASK, ARE YOU IN CONTROL?
"We should always be asking ourselves: "Is this something that is, or is not, in my control?"
- EPICTETUS
06. EXTERNAL PAIN IS IN YOUR CONTROL
"If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now."
- MARCUS AURELIUS
05. IMPROVE YOURSELF
"Man conquers the world by conquering himself"
- ZENO OF CITIUM
04. SMILE WHEN IN PAIN
"Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it 24 hours a day."
- MARKUS ZUSAK
03. IT'S OKAY TO HIDE YOUR TRUE SELF
"People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if peoplebled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?"
- ALICE HOFFMAN
02. THE PAST IS SOMETIMES YOUR FUTURE
"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too."
- MARCUS AURELIUS
01. THINGS CAN NOT TOUCH THE MIND
"There are two of the most immediately useful thoughts you will dip into. First that things cannot touch the mind: They're external and inert; anxieties can only come from your internal judgments. Second, that all these things you see will change almost as you look at them, and then will be no more. Constantly bring to mind all that you yourself have already seen changed".
- MARCUS AURELIUS
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