“Is it other people that bother me? Or the judgment I make about other people?”.’ It

Constantly regard the universe as one living being10, having one substance and one soul,’

Indeed, nothing outside your own mind can properly be described as negative or positive at all.

Most of us, the Stoics point out, go through life under the delusion that it is certain people, situations, or events that make us sad, anxious, or angry.

our constant efforts to eliminate the negative – insecurity, uncertainty, failure, or sadness – that is what causes us to feel so insecure, anxious, uncertain, or unhappy.

a new generation of business thinkers are advising companies to drop their obsession with goalsetting and embrace uncertainty instead;

in order to be truly happy, we might actually need to be willing to experience more negative emotions – or, at the very least, to learn to stop running quite so hard from them.

the effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable.