Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being ha… - Ryan Holiday

Knowledge and experience are not at odds; the latter is simply another form of the former.

Tolstoy expressed his exasperation at people who didn’t read deeply and regularly. “I cannot understand,” he said, “how some people can live without communicating with the wisest people who ever lived on earth.

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 we’ll just lie there and take it. Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.