Luxman
#TRE45ON
Stoicism teaches how to keep a calm and rational mind no matter what happens to you and it helps you understand and focus on what you can control and not worry about and accept what you can’t control.
Stoicism is about the domestication of emotions, not their elimination.
Stoicism, understood properly, is a cure for a disease. The disease in question is the anxiety, grief, fear, and various other negative emotions that plague humans and prevent them from experiencing a joyful existence.
Stoicism is about the domestication of emotions, not their elimination.
Stoicism, understood properly, is a cure for a disease. The disease in question is the anxiety, grief, fear, and various other negative emotions that plague humans and prevent them from experiencing a joyful existence.
maildude
Postal Paranoiac
"Too Bad ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation."--Henry Kissinger
"Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm."--John F. Kennedy
"There's nothing wrong with this country that we couldn't cure by turning it over to the police for a couple of weeks."--George Wallace
"Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm."--John F. Kennedy
"There's nothing wrong with this country that we couldn't cure by turning it over to the police for a couple of weeks."--George Wallace
Every stance unchallenged is positioned to boast on some victorious moral high ground.
- Criss Jami
- Criss Jami
... but were they merely hearing the echoes of their own voices, magnified through strange caverns & tunnels? When they spoke to the Divinities, were they speaking to giant reflections of themselves?
- Robert Jackson Bennett
- Robert Jackson Bennett
Eric Lindros
#88
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
-Walt Disney
-Walt Disney
This is The Way
- The Mandalorian
- The Mandalorian
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred ?
Richard Dawkins
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every ****** and ******, hopeful *****, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan
Richard Dawkins
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every ****** and ******, hopeful *****, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan
“Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.” - Sue Grafton
"When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie." - Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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