I find myself more and more in accordance with this Stoic philosophy. For me, right now, I would summarize as ‘If one does not control himself then something else will’.
>>> “There is only one thing that you are at least potentially in control of, and that is you: your will, your intentions, your self.”
I am not completely at this stage yet, but I want to be;
>>> “He doesn’t worry about what tomorrow will bring, since tomorrow is not under his control either. The Stoic philosopher is the man who has liberated himself from fear. He is not afraid of death, he is not afraid of pain, he is not afraid of other people’s dismissal of him as a fool.”
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