How we interpret the events in our lives, our perspective, is the framework for our forthcoming response — whether there will even be one or whether … - Ryan Holiday

Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.

The Stoics spent so much effort trying to limit their attachments to various comforts.

They worked hard at not needing the newest or fanciest or most expensive new luxury.

They understood that it was not only ungrateful – it was a quest that only ever ended in disappointment.

Everything is change. Embrace that. Flow with it.

In failure or adversity, it’s so easy to hate. Hate defers blame. It makes someone else responsible. It’s a distraction too; we don’t do much else when we’re busy getting revenge or investigating the wrongs that have supposedly been done to us.