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.

We forget: In life, it doesn’t matter what happens to you or where you came from. It matters what you do with what happens and what you’ve been given.

The less energy we waste regretting the past or worrying about the future, the more energy we will have for what’s in front of us.

All of humanity’s problems,” Blaise Pascal said in 1654, “stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.