- Focus on what you can control.
- "You become what you give your attention to." — Epictetus
- "We suffer more in imagination than in reality." — Seneca
- You can’t learn what you think you already know.
- Stop waiting to demand the best for yourself.
- "Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself." — Marcus Aurelius
- "Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it." — Epictetus
- Associate only with people who improve you.
- "The greatest remedy for anger is delay." — Seneca
- Value time more than possessions.
- You always own the option of having no opinion.
- "Never be overheard complaining...even to yourself." — Marcus Aurelius
- Most of what we say and do is not essential.
- Difficulties show a person's character.
- "Limit yourself to the present." — Marcus Aurelius
- Receive without pride, let go without attachment.
- Stop caring about what other people say, think, or do.
- Anxiety is within you and your perceptions, not outside.
- Focus on effort, not results.
- To improve, you have to be OK with looking foolish.
- Build a life you don't need to escape from.
- "Don't be ashamed of needing help." — Marcus Aurelius
- No one can make you upset—you choose to be.
- Never look outside yourself for approval.
- Every human being is an opportunity for kindness.
- Say no to the things that don’t matter, so you can say yes to the things that do.
- Think progress, not perfection.
- Keep learning…to the end of your life.
- The obstacle is the way.
- Death is not in the distant future. We are dying every day.
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ryan holiday