You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it. Atomic Habits
"They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom." The Analects of Confucius
Meditation on any theme, if positive and honest, inevitably separates him who does the meditating from the opinion prevailing around him, from that which … can be called “public” or “popular” opinion. What is Philosophy?
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. The Prophet
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