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In this age, I don’t care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are, if you cannot create harmony — even vicious harmony — on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete. We have got to have officers who can create harmony across all those lines.” Defense Secretary Jim Mattis	added by AnaDay 3 years ago
I find helpful the Stoic notion of indifferent things—all the stuff that doesn’t matter or matters a relatively tiny amount, and of thinking through what ideas, including false ideas, my feelings might be based on. It’s cognitive therapy but it’s also Stoicism. I also find that reading Seneca can cheer me up, even apart from any ethical or psychological tips I might glean, because his style is so effective; it’s absorbing and fun, and it’s hard to feel angry or upset when you’re busy following a rhetorical avalanche. A while ago, I re-read Seneca’s On Anger during a particularly difficult and enraging time in my personal life, and I did genuinely find it helpful. It’s useful to have a reminder of how much being angry can hurt the person who is indulging in the feeling. I try not to be angry, and also not to be passive or ignore what’s wrong; it’s a tough balance. I like that Seneca and the other Stoic-influenced writers are so deeply interested in these essential daily questions of how to manage our feelings, and how feelings relate to action. Emily Wilson	added by AnaDay 3 years ago
The most fertile idea of the Stoics, in my view, is their analysis of emotions as containing evaluative thoughts about what is most important for one’s well-being. That view I find basically correct, though in need of a lot of further work. Their normative analysis of the emotions seems wrong to me, namely that we should get rid of them all, but they are pretty on target in their critique of anger. Martha Nussbaum	added by AnaDay 3 years ago
Stoicism has blessings and curses. If we think we are bullet proof, whether as civilians or soldiers, we are sorely misled and put ourselves in grave psychological danger. At bottom, we become unprepared for loving and losing and being the kinds of object that can be loved or lost, by parents, spouses, and children alike. In war and peacetime, as combatants or noncombatants, we may face unspeakable horrors and life threats and indignities, large and small. But the very numbness that can be so adaptive to survival, can also erect walls that stand in the way of human attachment and trust. I am all for Stoic teachings of empowerment of agency. But we are, as Marcus Aurelius knew well, citizens of the universe, attached to each other, and deeply affected by the social worlds and practices and institutions of which we are a part. To forget our membership and responsibilities in the social world and how that affects our life chances is to forget who we are. Nancy Sherman	added by AnaDay 3 years ago
It perfectly illustrates the current moment – right now that first retreat he’s talking about is mostly digital. That’s how we get away from ourselves — by retreating into technology and social media. But the only way to find peace and thrive is to take breaks from the world and make time to regularly renew ourselves by reconnecting with ourselves. Arianna Huffington	added by AnaDay 3 years ago
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Marcus Aelius Aurelius	added by AnaDay 3 years ago
The East or West, South or North, everywhere the woman is the circle of your life and even is the promised gift in heaven, you cannot escape from that. Ehsan Sehgal	added by sehgal07 3 years ago
Remember, happiness and negativity are largely self-fulfilling prophecies. We see whatever we choose to project on the world around us, and that reflects back to us like a huge movie screen. We are, then, at once the projectionist, the actor, and the audience in this movie called Life. Brad Mittman MD	added by hopefil 3 years ago
On Success & Failure: If you haven't failed, you haven't tried hard enough. Success in obtaining anything worth any value requires a long chain of failures. Otherwise everyone would have it. Brad Mittman MD	added by hopefil 3 years ago
I became the prince of my dreams. I became the warrior of my dreams. I became the superman of my dreams. Wesley D'Amico	added by WesleyD'Amico 3 years ago
There is a writer in every sentence without the author. Wesley D'Amico	added by WesleyD'Amico 3 years ago
Behind every sentence without the author, there is a writer. Wesley D'Amico	added by WesleyD'Amico 3 years ago
There is more wisdom inside a seed than in my head. Wesley D'Amico	added by WesleyD'Amico 3 years ago
Celebration of life, happiness, joy, gratitude, kindness and endurance all comes from within. Then, starts reflecting in our lives. Purvi Raniga	added by Purviraniga 3 years ago
Silence gives you an opportunity to listen to your heart.' Sm sindiswa matyobeni	added by sindiswa.matyobeni 3 years ago
If you don't want me to see your soul, don't look into my eyes. Wesley D'Amico	added by WesleyD'Amico 3 years ago
The mask hides the face, but the look reveals the soul's intent. Wesley D'Amico	added by WesleyD'Amico 3 years ago
Your gaze reveals your love only to those who know your soul. Wesley D'Amico	added by WesleyD'Amico 3 years ago
James Hansen, one of the most distinguished scientists to warn of the dangers of climate change, once said that being in his line of work is like screaming at people from behind a soundproof glass wall. You’ve written that being an author of fiction who is concerned with environmental questions often feels frighteningly similar. James Bradley	added by Kiweke 3 years ago
Fear God and not men. For Jesus was a man and not a woman. Mwanandeke Kindembo	added by King_M 3 years ago
Where can I find the true biography of God? All the so-called gods with autobiographies and biographies are not worthy to be worshipped. Mwanandeke Kindembo	added by King_M 3 years ago
Some people can read the biography of their gods online. When and where he was born and at what place or at what age he died. Mwanandeke Kindembo	added by King_M 3 years ago
If you are not fatherless or motherless, then you are one of us, officially human being. But the multitude are worshipping other human beings. The lower minds being governed by the upper minds. Mwanandeke Kindembo	added by King_M 3 years ago
There are so many who rebel from righteousness for the sake of rebelling. They have an empty cause. Mwanandeke Kindembo	added by King_M 3 years ago

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