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On Unexpected Partnerships Who has surprised you by becoming a helpful presence in your life?
We don’t get to choose what happens to us, but we can always choose how we feel about it. And why on earth would you choose to feel anything but good? Ryan Holiday
On Old Habits Die Hard How easy or hard is it for you to start a new habit?
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. Seneca
On Old Habits Die Hard What habit from your past do you miss?
Try to enjoy the great festival of life. Epictetus
On Old Habits Die Hard What’s the smallest habit you could change that would make life a little easier?
Those who have subdued their ego understand that it doesn’t degrade you when others treat you poorly; it degrades them. Ryan Holiday
On Old Habits Die Hard What old patterns do you fall back into when you’re stressed?
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. Marcus Aurelius
On Old Habits Die Hard What’s a habit you’ve refused to change, even when someone asked you to?
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars. Seneca
On Old Habits Die Hard What habits of people close to you drive you absolutely wild?
Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective Ryan Holiday
On Old Habits Die Hard What’s one old habit that still follows you everywhere?
Ignorance is the cause of fear. Seneca
On Me Time What’s the first thing you’d do if someone canceled on you last minute?
I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land. Seneca
On Me Time What kinds of “self-care” routines does the world push on you that you don’t care about or wish to ditch?
The wise man will live as long as he ought, not as long as he can. Seneca
On Me Time What kind of me-time makes you feel completely restored?
Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart. Seneca
On Me Time What do you discover about yourself when you slow down?
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. Seneca
On Me Time What part of your life is seriously overdue for attention?
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him. Epictetus
On Me Time How do you feel when you don’t have enough time to yourself during the day?
We should always be asking ourselves - is this something that is, or is not, in my control? Epictetus
On Me Time What does “quality time” honestly mean to you?
Anger always outlasts hurt. Best to take the opposite course. Seneca
On No More Resolutions To what demands from the future can you happily say: “I don’t care at all”?
Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak. Zeno of Citium
On No More Resolutions What kindness toward your future self do you wish to offer?
for your part, do not desire to be a general, or a senator, or a consul, but to be free; and the only way to this is a disregard of things which lie not within our own power. Epictetus
On No More Resolutions What pressure have you been carrying that you’re ready to let go of?
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. Ray Bradbury
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. Benjamin Franklin
Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. Charles Dickens
I shut my eyes in order to see. Paul Gauguin
Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. Maya Angelou
Love is not consolation. It is light. Simone Weil
On Rise and Shine When was the last time you watched a sunrise?
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess. Rainer Maria Rilke
On Rise and Shine In most mornings, are you more of a grumpy cat or a cheerful early bird?
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. Benjamin Franklin
On Rise and Shine If you could wake up anywhere you wanted tomorrow, what would your morning look like?
Falling is one of the ways of moving. Merce Cunningham
On Rise and Shine What’s one “morning routine” trend you think is totally overrated?
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard
On Rise and Shine Do you prefer slow, cozy mornings or quick, energetic starts?
Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it. Albert Camus
The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses. Edith Södergran
On Rise and Shine When was the last time your day started out absolutely perfectly?
Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. Ferris Bueller
On Headscratchers Have you ever realized the answer to a problem was way simpler than you thought?
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Stephen Hawking
On Headscratchers Have you ever been stuck on a decision for ages?
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. Aristotle
On Headscratchers When’s the last time you thought, “What the hell just happened?”
Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever. Peter Hagerty