Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday

cheered). His daughters also sold slivers of wood from the trees their father had cut down as souvenirs to raise money for chari ...

his swimming. Saint Teresa of Ávila loved to dance, and so did Mae Carol Jemison, the first African American woman in space. Sim ...

Pieper said that leisure was like saying a prayer before bed. It might help you go to sleep—just as leisure might help you get b ...

On the job, we are busy. We are needed. We have power. We are validated. We have conflict and urgency and an endless stream of d ...

yes, but also fulfilled and balanced. Getting to know yourself is the luxury of the success you’ve had. Finding fulfillment and ...

A BEWARE ESCAPISM Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am H ...

than sitting alone by himself in a room, doing battle with the demons that made his writing so beautiful in the first place. Tha ...

The one thing you can’t escape in your life is yourself. Anyone who’s traveled long enough knows this. It’s eventually clear we ...

If true peace and clarity are what you seek in this life—and by the way, they are what you deserve—know that you will find them ...

I ACT BRAVELY To see people who will notice a need in the world and do something about it.... Those are my heroes. —FRED ROGERS ...

irrevocably changes his self-perception: That night on the canal he shrugged off a chance to save someone from committing suicid ...

Stillness is not an excuse to withdraw from the affairs of the world. Quite the opposite—it’s a tool to let you do more good for ...

by God. Too many believers seem to think that belief is enough. How many people who claim to be of this religion or that one, if ...

There is no escaping this. Dive in when you hear the cry for help. Reach out when you see the need. Do kindness where you can. B ...

I ON TO THE FINAL ACT As a well-spent day brings a happy sleep, so a well- employed life brings a happy death. —LEONARDO DA VINC ...

Then, just as Antoninus had done, he prepared for his final words. His last chance for passing on wisdom to the people he loved, ...

Memento mori. This is a fact that, perhaps more than anything else, is responsible for incredible amounts of anxiety and distres ...

I AFTERWORD t’s getting to be early evening now, and about time for me to get up from the computer, having made some progress on ...

cows have gotten wise to the sound and come running to investigate. I line it up with the hay ring, back up again, and watch it ...

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