Don’t suffer imagined troubles.


Seneca: “We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”

11 Daily Stoic Lessons - Billy Oppenheimer

Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.

— Anthony De Mello

Heraclitus would shed tears whenever he went out in public-Democritus laughed. One saw the whole as a parade of miseries, the other of follies.
And so, we should take a lighter view of things and bear them with an easy spirit, for it is more human to laugh at life than to lament it.
— Seneca (On the Tranquility of Mind 15.2)

Just because we are light footed in this journey of life, people think of us as frivolous, which is not the case …
Life should be a … There should be happiness and cheer and lightness of being, no?
What else we here for?
— Ranveer Singh (KWK S07E01)

“I’m thankful for my struggle for without it I wouldn’t have stumbled across my strength.” https://thoughtkick.com/post/674822051953000448

“Once you’ve taken a few punches and realize you’re not made of glass, you don’t feel alive unless…” https://thoughtkick.com/post/674839422432395264

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

“Don’t let your struggle become your identity.”

“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.”

“There’s really no shortcut to forgetting someone. You just have to endure missing them everyday until you don’t anymore.”

“You don’t know how little you matter until you’re all alone.”