Ready When Adversity Knocks
Don’t hope to avoid bad luck. Trouble will come, whether you like it or not. Instead, aim to be ready when adversity knocks on your door.
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You Can’t Serve Two Masters
You can’t focus on inner strength AND trying to control the external world at the same time. You have to choose.
Is Your Soul a Tyrant?
Is your soul a philosopher king, guiding on the paths which are good and true? Or is it a tyrant, leading from base desire and obsession?
Choose to be at Peace, Rather Than at War
Don’t fall into the trap of seeking out strife just because it seems exciting or necessary. Choosing peace is just as valiant, and much wiser.
It Isn’t Manly to Be Enraged
Getting furious actually makes you less of a man, because it means you don’t have mastery over your emotions.
Courage to Abstain
Joking that you’re addicted to coffee or addicted to your phone is too easy. Know what takes real courage? Abstaining from these things — because it’s harder to do.
Amor Fati — the Love of Fate
What if you could love what has already happened, even if you actually wanted something else to happen — and love what will happen in the future too, even if you would prefer something else? What if you could ‘love fate’? Wouldn’t that be easier?
Good Things Come From Within
Stop looking for good things to happen to you, and start looking for good things where they actually are. There’s a fountain of goodness inside you!
Good Fortune Illuminates Character, Too
Good luck and prosperity don’t just automatically bring happiness. If your soul is mired in fear, then they only bring more fear. Aim for a stronger soul first, rather than good fortune.
Adapt Your Will When Necessary
Resilience doesn’t mean stubbornly sticking to a plan in the face of new information. Adapting your will proves your inner strength.
