The Stoic Manual

The Stoic Manual

XXXVIII. You're Responsible for Yourself

The feeling you have isn't final. Just keep going. Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.

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"Reflect on how many things have happened that you didn't want, and yet they turned out for the best." — Marcus Aurelius

The following is a story about Hercules & the Wagoner as told in Aesop’s fables,

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