A new spin on Seneca’s Dying Every Day
(Come to think of it, this is Mother Nature, so Stoicism’s a modern spin on 😆)
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I came to understand that long before I read it.
— James Stockdale
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You become what you give your attention to …
If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will!
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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)