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"One of the pillars of Stoic philosophy is not letting circumstances outside your control disturb your equilibrium. Such externally-dictated circumstances include things we’re used to thinking of as being out of our hands, like the weather, traffic, and our health (and that of our loved ones). But it also includes things we often erroneously believe we have full personal control over, like the outcomes of contests and the success or failure of business ventures."

[artofmanliness.com]

Angelface 7 Apr 12
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This is an interesting article because I am not one to "suffer slings and arrows" quietly. I'm the one whose's feelings are never in doubt, altho I hope not stridently. One man once told me I just had to accept things as they were and I asked, "Do you even know me?"

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“And this question of how to live is perhaps humanity’s most enduring — becoming especially acute in ages in which a sense of shared meaning has atrophied and every individual is left to find meaning on his own.”

skado Level 9 Apr 12, 2018
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To be stoic is like standing waiting for the next foot to fall and just trying to be prepared to take evasive action.I would rather be doing anything to control my environment

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I don't like Stoicism because it tries to tell you how to live your life, to neither minimize nor maximize. A sort of middle way path to oblivion.

cava Level 7 Apr 12, 2018
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