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Giving Up Quotes

    “No one is perfect. We all have bad days. It’s okay to feel a little discouraged. But to give up? To not even try? That is criminal. ‘Disgraceful,’ Marcus Aurelius would say, ‘for the soul to give up when the body is still going strong.’ All of us have fallen short in the last year…and the years before that. We broke our resolutions. We made the same mistakes again and again. We were ‘jarred, unavoidably, by circumstances,’ as Marcus said. But now it’s time to pick ourselves up and try again. We have to keep going. We can’t give up. Because the alternative is unthinkable.”

    Ryan Holiday, Daily Stoic Blog

      “It’s a disgrace in this life when the soul surrenders first while the body refuses to.”

      Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, via The Daily Stoic (Page 383)

        “A solid routine saves you from giving up.”

        John Updike, via Daily Rituals (Page 195)

          “The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.” ~ Vince Lombardi