One quote a day.

One day, everyone that you know and everyone that knows you will be gone.

 

"Paul Tillich has a beautiful formulation: “Language . . . has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being alone.” Loneliness is painful, emotionally and even physically, born from a “want of intimacy” when we need it most, in early childhood. Solitude—the capacity to be contentedly and constructively alone—is built from successful human connection at just that time. But if we don’t have experience with solitude—and this is often the case today—we start to equate loneliness and solitude. This reflects the impoverishment of our experience. If we don’t know the satisfactions of solitude, we only know the panic of loneliness." - Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation

 

"Meditation, or samadhi, is connected with the idea of overcoming the constant search for entertainment. By overcoming that, you begin to cut through the subconscious mind, the mind that provides obstacles to meditation practice. Having done so, you begin to develop a state of absorption in the sense of complete presence.

The idea of samadhi is meditation from which there is no break. A break is not needed because, in its essence, meditation is already a break from samsara."
Chogyam Trungpa, The Path of Individual Liberation

 

"Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it." -- Maya Angelou.

 

“It is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.” - Machiavelli

 

“What you resist will persist, what you accept will transform” - Jesse Rafeh

 

"When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude." --G K. Chesterton

 

"I never lose I either win or learn." -Nelson Mandella

 

"As long as you live, keep learning how to live." -Seneca

 

The mind is everything what you think you become - Buddha

 

I heard something a similar, but maybe a bit sadder "Everything you love will die." I guess that's a morbid way to say, appreciate those that you love today because no living thing is here forever.

 

The Stoics had a lot of wisdom that still holds true today.

 

Very true. Sadly, stoicism is often overlooked

 

"Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power." -Lao Tzu

 

Not sure about you, but I practiced stoicism before I knew what it was. Now, I am happy to say I'm a stoic. Ryan Holiday does a good job on his site of keeping the practice relevant.

 

"No one confines their unhappiness to the present" - Seneca

 

"I will not die a monster"
Otto Octavius


One of the greatest character redemption arcs of all time

 

"You have no enemies at all, there is no one you need to hurt"
Thors from Vinland Saga