Every obstacle is an opportunity to get better. - Ryan Holiday

The Greeks had a word for this: apatheia. It's the kind of calm equanimity that comes with the absence of irrational or extreme emotions. Not the loss of feeling altogether, just the loss of the harmful, unhelpful kind. Don't let the negativity in, don't let those emotions even get started. Just say: No, thank you. I can't afford to panic.

The purpose of knowledge is action.

The reason the knives are so sharp online is because the pie is so small.