When I see an anxious person, I ask myself, what do they want? For if a person wasn’t wanting something outside of their own control, why would they … - Ryan Holiday

You can't beat a problem by debating it, only by deciding what you're going to do about it and then doing it.

We need to cultivate the ability to tell the difference. To be able consult without being cowed. To be singular while not thinking we are superior.

We need other voices around us. We need help. We need to be able to yield.

"If an emotion can't change the condition or the situation you're dealing with, it is likely an unhelpful emotion. Or, quite possibly, a destructive one. But it's what I feel. Right, no one said anything about not feeling it. No one said you can't ever cry. Forget "manliness." If you need to take a moment, by all means, go ahead. Real strength lies in the control or, as Nassim Taleb put it, the domestication of one's emotions, not in pretending they don't exist."