626 Quotes by Ryan Holiday

People don't want to praise their contemporaries whos lives they actually share, but hold great expectations for the praise of future generations.

Frame your thought like this. You are an old person, you won't let yourself be enslaved by this any longer, no longer pulled like a puppet by every impulse, and you'll stop complaining about your present fortune or dreading the future.

Eagerly anticipating some future event, passionately imagining something you desire, looking forward to some happy scenario as pleasurable as these activities might seem, they ruin your chance at happiness here and now.

We must remember: There is no easy way.

Our actions may be impeded..but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts ot its own purposes the obstacle to our acting.