Category: life lessons
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This Quote by Epictetus Has Saved My Life Countless Times
Philosophy can save your life. “Isn’t it unbearable to hang oneself? But when someone feels it is reasonable, he goes and hangs himself.” — Epictetus. For Epictetus, nothing attracts the rational human being more than reason. And therefore, when your mind concludes that something for you is precisely reasonable, you go and do it. This explains why some…
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Three Unsettling Life Lessons by Marcus Aurelius That Will Make You Feel Superhuman
Lessons from an ancient emperor to modern life. Refrain from opinion, and all will be well. “Your evil does not lie in other people’s criteria, nor in any modification or alteration of the matter that surrounds you. Where does it lie, then? In your own criterion of good and evil. So that if you abstain from opinion,…
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Seven Life Lessons That Are So Precious That It Seems Illegal to Know Them
These are not the typical tips you find everywhere. We are made of knots. And these knots, in turn, are made of people and circumstances. So we are an infinite network of interpersonal relationships, so complex that it is overwhelming. As if this were not enough, actual increases in complexity as the world’s development advances…
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4 Important Life Lessons Your Inner Self Wants You To Remember Now and Ever
Your inner voice wants to tell you some hard truths. And you should start listening to it. 1. Luck is a state of being There is a “here and now” for you, and that’s awesome. Steve Jobs doesn’t have it anymore Kobe Bryant doesn’t have it either 🙁 You are fortunate to be alive, and you forget it.…
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Three Life Lessons to Stop Being Secretly Unhappy
Happiness is a skill you can learn. Leo Tolstoy was wrong when he wrote that first sentence in Anna Karenina, “All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” As I get older, I realize that all the reproaches, deceptions, and arguments end up looking like commonplaces in the life…
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30 Things That Take Less Than 60 Minutes but Can Drastically Change Your Life
Life is much more than a succession of effervescent moments, fireworks, sexual partners, and white sand beaches in Thailand. Life is a succession of three types of moments. And routine makes up 80% of your entire life. Therefore it is in the valley moments where you can see more clearly if you are happy or…
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Three Hard Truths That Will Leave You With Your Mouth Open
#1- Most people don’t miss you when you leave. To understand ourselves, we have to grind the experiences we live through in the grinder of memory; to come back again and again to the same thing, tear it apart, break it down, boil it in our mind, filter it and serve it as the best coffee…
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Four Habits of Deeply Mean People
#3–They always suspect others. In 1888 a French newspaper announced Alfred Nobel’s death by mistake — the one who died was his brother Ludwig — and this allowed Alfred to find out what people would think of him when he died. It was not good news, “Death merchant dies,” read the headline. Alfred Nobel invented dynamite. And dynamite comes from…
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Three Life-Traps That I Wish I Had Avoided Much Earlier in Life and That You Should Avoid as Soon as Possible
Learn from my mistakes until it’s too late. My grandfather told me once, “life is like an elevator. It takes you up but also can take you down. So be careful with which button you push. It is not the same to be on the first floor and press the button for the second floor as…
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How to Be Patient and Not Collapse in the Attempt
Today has been a shitty day, like so many others. And the problem is not that they pile up. It’s that you don’t get used to it. You don’t get used to going to the hospital and waiting 6 hours to be seen. You don’t get used to being looked at poorly for taking the…