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    “Being pleasant and having a good attitude is a simple way to become luckier. Opportunities come through people, and people are more likely to bring opportunities to people they like. It’s hard to win if your attitude adds friction to every interpersonal experience.”

    James Clear, Blog

      “You don’t have to believe there is a god directing the universe, you just need to stop believing that you’re that director. As soon as you can attune your spirit to that idea, the easier and happier your life will be, because you will have given up the most potent addiction of all: control.”

      Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic (Page 330)

        “How willingly we will put up with unpleasantness if commanded to by the magic words ‘doctor’s orders.’ The doctors says you’ve got to take this nasty medicine, and you’ll do it. The doctor tells you you have to start sleeping hanging upside down like a bat. You’ll feel silly, but soon enough you’ll get to dangling because you think it will make you better. On the other hand, when it comes to external events, we fight like hell if anything happens contrary to our plans. But what if a doctor had prescribed this exact thing as part of our treatment? What if this was as good for us as medicine?”

        Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic (Page 328)

          “Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.”

          Saint Augustine

            “Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are anger and courage. Anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain as they are.”

            Saint Augustine

              “Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received—only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice, and courage.”

              Francis of Assisi

                “Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of grace. The gift of grace increases as the struggle increases.”

                Rose of Lima

                  “What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”

                  Saint Augustine

                    “The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; let it defend itself.”

                    Saint Augustine

                      “That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn’t a hiding place. It is a finding place.”

                      Jeanette Winterson, via Between Two Kingdoms (Page 107)

                        “I’d always imagined myself as the kind of writer who would help other people tell their stories, but increasingly I found myself gravitating toward the first person. Illness had turned my gaze inward.”

                        Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms (Page 107)

                          “People often respond to the news of tragedy with ‘words fail,’ but words did not fail me that day, or the next, or thereafter—they poured out of me, first cautiously, then exuberantly, my mind awakening as if from a long slumber, thoughts tumbling out faster than my pen could keep up.”

                          Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms (Page 106)

                            “Something happened that we wish had not. Which of these is easiest to change: our opinion or the event that is past? The answer is obvious. Accept what happened and change your wish that it had not happened. Stoicism calls this the ‘art of acquiescence’—to accept rather than fight every little thing.”

                            Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic (Page 326)