Focus on What Matters: A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well
They believed in being compassionate, but remaining cautious of another person’s energy. To a Stoic, their own sanity is more important than feeling someone else’s pain.
Darius Foroux • Focus on What Matters: A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well
What I learned from Stoicism is that time is your most valuable resource.
Darius Foroux • Focus on What Matters: A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well
Our job is not to preach our values. Our job is to execute our values in our own minds.
Darius Foroux • Focus on What Matters: A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well
We all need to be more conscious of how we spend our time. Most of us know this — we just don’t live it. We squander our time like it’s nothing.
Darius Foroux • Focus on What Matters: A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well
“Let us enquire what is the best, not what is the most customary, thing to do,
Darius Foroux • Focus on What Matters: A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well
While many of us desire to become the rulers of our destiny, we can’t embark on that endeavor unless we master our inner world first. Otherwise, we will give up every time we experience a setback.
Darius Foroux • Focus on What Matters: A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well
Pick up The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow, which
Darius Foroux • Focus on What Matters: A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well
Show them sympathy, use comforting words, and even share their misery outwardly. But make sure that you do not inwardly grieve with them.”
Darius Foroux • Focus on What Matters: A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well
Seneca said it best: “So what is good? The knowledge of life. What is bad? Ignorance of life.” To have knowledge of life, pursue wisdom in books, articles, and through conversations with other people who are on the same path.