Weekly Quotes Chain! Theme: Discipline and Accountability
Hi everyone! I hope you are doing well. I have once again come across a quote that makes me go 'I need to share this with people who can obsess over this with me' so here I am hoping such people can find this thread and together we can reflect on a weekly thought!
I will try to post 1-2 times per week, feel free to hold me accountable with a message. The goal is to just share these incredible quotes with everyone else. Heads up, almost all of them will be in relevance to the stoic philosophy and focused on hyper-accountability and discipline. You are welcome to check out spark of the week instead for light hearted quotes and reflections!
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Covered Quotes
- "You could be good today but instead you choose tomorrow!" Marcus Aurelius
- 'While we wait for life, life passes" - Seneca
- “How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?” - Epictetus
- “Stick to what’s in front of you — idea, action, utterance.” — Marcus Aurelius
- First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.” - Epictetus
- "Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offender’s ignorance of what is good or evil." - Marcus Aurelius
- "Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them" - Marcus Aurelius
- "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." - Seneca
- 'Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.' - Seneca
- The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately. - Marcus Aurelius
- 'Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.' - Seneca
- Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach. -Seneca
Hi everyone! Quote of the day
Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach. - Seneca
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” —Mary Anne Radmacher
Hi everyone! I hope your weekend went well.
Quote of the day
“The mind is everything. What you think, you become.” — Marcus Aurelius:
"Fall down seven times, get up eight."
- old Japanese proverb
I don't know what the point is of us spiraling through infinite and incomprehensible space on a pale blue dot in a solar system and galaxy light years away from countless infinite others but I know handling the weight of this mystery can be beyond hard sometimes and that being kind is one of the most beautiful things in the world.
Also seeking beauty, arranging ones life in a way that allows it to be sought and cultivating it into a more precious farm then gold and jewels to honor the place where all meets and sharing that with others in a honest way is important.
Furthermore it's not just about sharing the highs, it's about also sharing the lows and everything in between. A high shared soars twice as far, a low shared cuts only half as deep and the in between builds bridges never before imagined or seen.
Ultimately yes, it's true; we perhaps don't know what we're doing here but I don't think we really need to. We came without any great and specific programming and agenda and when we're kind and cultivate beauty through our inherent and unique expressions of creativity, nature and whatever our spirituality is then we're more than living. We are alive. A live.
"That which you seek, seeks you." - Rumi
"Do or do not, there is no try." - Yoda
"I have a dream." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Just keep going." - CommunicativePond1728
