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    “No one can harm you. ‘If someone succeeds in provoking you,’ Epictetus said, ‘realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation.’ He meant that whatever other people do and say is on them. Whatever your reaction is to what other people do and say—that’s on you. No one can make you angry, only you have that power. Someone can certainly say something offensive or stupid or mean, but no one can make you upset—that’s a choice.”

    Ryan Holiday

      “Sunshine all the time makes a desert.”

      Arab proverb

        “If other people having it worse than you means you can’t be sad, then other people having it better than you would mean you can’t be happy. Feel what you feel.”

        Ideopunk, LessWrong

          “Conquer rage with humility, conquer evil with goodness, conquer greed with generosity, and conquer lies with truth.”

          Dhammapada, via A Calendar of Wisdom (Page 110)

            “the inward movement can be summarized as follows: we observe ourselves, we accept what we find without judgment, we let it go, and the actual release causes our transformation.”

            Yung Pueblo, Inward (Page 107)

              “healing ourselves isn’t about constantly feeling bliss; being attached to bliss is a bondage of its own. trying to force ourselves to be happy is counterproductive, because it suppresses the sometimes tough reality of the moment, pushing it back within the depths of our being, instead of allowing it to arise and release.”

              Yung Pueblo, Inward (Page 81)

                “There is great power in honoring the reality of our current emotions—not feeding them or making them worse but simply recognizing that this is what has arisen in this present moment and that this will also change. When we create this space within ourselves—a space of calmness that is undisturbed by the storm—the storm tends to pass more quickly.”

                Yung Pueblo, Inward (Page 81)

                  don't run away
from heavy emotions

honor the anger;
give pain the space
it needs to breathe

this is how we let go

~  Yung Pueblo, Inward (Page 17)

                    “People who are overly emotional have a leg up on a lot of people who think they’re “in control” of their emotions by suppressing and feeling nothing.”

                    Mark Manson

                      “There is no vice which lacks a defense, none that at the outset isn’t modest and easily intervened—but after this the trouble spreads widely. If you allow it to get started you won’t be able to control when it stops. Every emotion is at first weak. Later it rouses itself and gathers strength as it moves along—it’s easier to slow it down than to supplant it.”

                      Seneca, Moral Letters, via The Daily Stoic (Page 175)