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    “You are only free when you realize you belong no place—you belong every place—no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.”

    Maya Angelou

      “Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.”

      Toni Morrison

        “There’s a difference between ‘belonging’ and ‘fitting in.’ When our sense of belonging is anchored in ourselves, it doesn’t really matter how or where or if we fit.”

        Suleika Jaouad

          “Stop wandering about! You aren’t likely to read your own notebooks, or ancient histories, or the anthologies you’ve collected to enjoy in your old age. Get busy with life’s purpose, toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue—if you care for yourself at all—and do it while you can.”

          Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, The Daily Stoic (Page 387)

            “It is not that you must be free from fear. The moment you try to free yourself from fear, you create a resistance against fear. Resistance, in any form, does not end fear. What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it, not how to resist it through courage and so on.”

            J. Krishnamurti, via Sunbeams (Page 155)

              “Your duty is to be; and not to be this or that.”

              Ramana Maharshi, via Sunbeams (Page 155)

                “We tend to think of the rational as a higher order, but it is the emotional that marks our lives. One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.”

                Merle Shain, via Sunbeams (Page 155)

                  “The people you admire, the ones who seem to be able to successfully handle and deal with adversity and difficulty, what do they have in common? Their sense of equilibrium, their orderly discipline. On the one-yard line, in the midst of criticism, after a heartbreaking tragedy, during a stressful period, they keep going. Not because they’re better than you. Not because they’re smarter than you. But because they have learned a little secret. You can take the bite out of any tough situation by bringing a calm mind to it.”

                  Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic (Page 386)

                    “To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.”

                    Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus, via The Daily Stoic (Page 386)

                      “In all things we should try to make ourselves be as grateful as possible. For gratitude is a good thing for ourselves, in a manner in which justice, commonly held to belong to others, is not. Gratitude pays itself back in large measure.”

                      Seneca, Moral Letters, via The Daily Stoic (Page 385)

                      The Daily Laws [Book]

                        The Daily Laws by Robert Greene [Book]

                        By: Robert Greene

                        From this Book: TBA

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                          “Everything lasts for a day, the one who remembers and the remembered.”

                          Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, via The Daily Stoic (Page 384)