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• Seneca

  Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

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• Seneca

  No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

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• Epictetus

  A boxer derives the greatest advantage from his sparring partner – and my accuser is my sparring partner. He trains me in patience, civility, and even temper.

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• Marcus Aurelius

  Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

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• Marcus Aurelius

  Other people’s mistakes? Leave them to their makers.

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• Justin Welsh

  Modern luxury is the ability to think clearly, sleep deeply, move slowly, and live quietly in a world designed to prevent all four.

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• Epictetus

  When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

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• Never take criticism from someone you wouldn’t take advice from.

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• Endowment effect: over-valuing things because you already own them.

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• Seneca

  Excellence withers without an adversary.

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• Ricky Gervais

  Be happy. It really annoys negative people.

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• John Wooden

  Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.

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• Seneca

  You ask what is the proper limit to a person’s wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.

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• Epictetus

  Any person capable of angering you becomes your master. He can anger you only if you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

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• Steven Bartlett

  “residual beneficiary”

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• Seneca

  No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don’t have and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.

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• Seneca

  Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favors you have received.

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• Seneca

  The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

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• Scott Adams

  “humorously inappropriate”

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• Barack Obama

  Do not let your failures define you. Let your failures teach you.

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• Epictetus

  Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

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• Seneca

  It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more that is poor.

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• Seneca

  Ignorance is the cause of fear.

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• Marcus Aurelius

  Almost nothing material is needed for a happy life, for he who has understood existence.

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• Marcus Aurelius

  Blame and praise have no true effects.

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• Epictetus

  Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.

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• Michael Whiteclear

  Remember, temperance is not about denying yourself the joys of life; it’s about enjoying them in a way that is sustainable, responsible, and in harmony with your true self.

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• Seneca

  He who fears death will always be a slave to anything that can save him from it. True freedom comes from accepting the inevitable and finding peace within it.

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• Marcus Aurelius

  Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.

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• Naval Ravikant

  Pride is the enemy of learning.

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• Seneca

  Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We’ve been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.

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• Greg McKeown

  Getting the future out of your head enables you to more fully focus on “what is important now.”

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• Maya Angelou

  I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

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• Seneca

  A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

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• W H Auden

  Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.

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• Seneca

  You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

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• Ryan Halliday

  What all fools have in common; they’re getting ready to start.

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• Epictetus

  Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one’s desires, but by the removal of desire.

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• Frank Tyger

  Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

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• Scott D Clary

  The fastest way to spot potential: Watch how someone handles setbacks. Character is revealed under pressure.

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• Proof beats hype.

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• Jeff Sutherland

  Getting rid of waste is a business’s first priority.

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• Marcus Aurelius

  I do not regard a man as poor if the little which remains is enough for him.

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• Seneca

  Throw me to the wolves, and I will return leading the pack.

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• Marcus Aurelius

  Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

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• You’re the greatest project you’ll ever work on. Restart. Reset. Refocus. As many times as you need.

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• Seneca

  No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.

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• Seneca

  However much you possess, there’s someone else who has more, and you’ll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need to the exact extent to which you lag behind him.

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• Epictetus

  A companion’s crudeness is bound to rub off on the one he is with, no matter how refined that person may be.

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• Epictetus

  He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has.

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• Seneca

  When Zeno received news of a shipwreck and heard that all his luggage had been sunk, he said, Fortune bids me to be a less encumbered philosopher.

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• Jeff Sutherland

  Wasting time is a slow form of suicide.

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• Marcus Aurelius

  Other people’s mistakes? Leave them to their makers.

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• Alex Hormozi

  If the cost is peace of mind, don’t buy it.

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• Seth Godin

  If you’re feeling creative, do the errands tomorrow. If you’re fit and healthy, take a day to go surfing. When inspiration strikes, write it down. The calendar belongs to everyone else. Their schedule isn’t your schedule unless it helps you get where you’re going.

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• James Clear

  Motivation often increases after you begin. The lesson is not to wish you had more motivation, but to make starting as easy as possible.

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• James Clear

  Results tend to accumulate to the person who enjoys the lifestyle that precedes the result.

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• David Senra

  Learning is not memorising information. Learning is changing your behaviour.

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• In the end, we all just want someone who chooses us over everyone else, under any circumstances.

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• Seth Godin

  Your keyboard has all the letters needed to allow you to type the book you have inside you.

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• Until you win effort goes unnoticed.

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• Alex Hormozi

  The stress of trying to be perfect is killing you more quickly than your imperfections.

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• Jeff Bezos

  Step by step. Ferociously.

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• Daniel Ek

  The value of a company is the sum of all problems solved.

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• Mau

  When everything is quantified, beauty is pushed to the periphery. It is confused with decoration.

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• Daniel Ek

  Happiness is the trailing indicator of impact.

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• Cal Newport

  Replicating the information from scratch as if teaching a class without looking at your notes. That is the only way to learn.

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• Cal Newport

  “demonstrating effort”

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• Proof beats hype.

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• David Gilbert-Smith

  Leadership – using your personal power to win the hearts and minds of others, in order to achieve a common purpose.

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• Marcus Aurelius

  Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

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• Marcus Aurelius

  Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.

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• Knowledge is knowing that at a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

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• “digital pacification”

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• Benjamin Bikman

  There’s no such thing as an essential carbohydrate.

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• Scott Adams

  Failure is a tool, not an outcome.

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• Jocko Willink

  The aim of every conversation is to improve the relationship.

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• Marcus Aurelius

  The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.

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• Marcus Aurelius

  If you’re honest, straightforward, and mean well, it should show in your eyes. It should be unmistakable.

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• Marcus Aurelius

  People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time – even when hard at work.

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• Scott Adams

  Sometimes you just need a friend who knows different things than you do.

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• Jimmy Carr

  The best dad in the world, is a mediocre mum.

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• Marcus Aurelius

  If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.

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• John Burroughs

  A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

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• Seneca

  If you don’t know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.

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• Ian McEwan

  Everyone nodded, nobody agreed.

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• Christine Heckart

  Too much detail makes you look junior.

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• Neil deGrasse Tyson

  If you let people go where their curiosity takes them, great things unfold.

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• Anthony de Mello

  When you fight something, you’re tied to it forever. As long as you’re fighting it, you ’re giving it power.

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• Tim Ferriss

  What would it look like if it were simple?

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• Education is not about filling buckets, it’s about lighting a fire.

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• Stephen R. Covey

  Listen to understand, don’t listen to reply.

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• Shunmyō Masuno

  At the root of anxiety is the desire to know something that you’re never going to know, no matter how much you think about it.

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• Jocko Willink

  “default aggressive”

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• Eric Barker

  your surroundings should make the things you need to do easy and the things you shouldn’t do hard

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• Confucious

  “Hara Hachi Bu” – eat to 80% full

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• Steven Bartlett

  Your first attempt will probably suck, but your 100th won’t exist if you don’t allow yourself to be terrible at your first.

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• Epictetus

  What is the product of virtue? Tranquility.

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• Seneca

  we must, therefore, take a less serious view of all things, tolerating them in a spirit of acceptance – it is more human to laugh at life than to weep tears over it

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• Epictetus

  Proper preparation for the future consists of forming good personal habits.

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