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We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.Seneca · Letters to Lucilius, Letter 13
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A little room to think
When thoughts circle the same question, another perspective can make room for a next step. These ten passages move from imagined worries and the limits of control toward attention, simplicity, and steady action. Read slowly. Keep the line that helps you name what is within your reach today; leave the others for another time. These are philosophical perspectives, each with its existing source attribution, rather than a promise that difficult thoughts will disappear.
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Some things are up to us and some are not: our judgments, desires, and actions are up to us; our bodies, possessions, and reputation are not.Epictetus · Enchiridion 1
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People are disturbed not by things themselves, but by the opinions they hold about things.Epictetus · Enchiridion 5
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You can lose only the present moment, for that is all you ever have; and no one can lose what he does not possess.Marcus Aurelius · Meditations 2.14
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The perfect person's mind is like a mirror: it pursues nothing and refuses nothing; it receives, but does not hold.Zhuangzi · Zhuangzi, chapter 7
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To be everywhere is to be nowhere.Seneca · Letters to Lucilius, Letter 2
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.Henry David Thoreau · Walden, "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For"
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Forever is composed of nows.Emily Dickinson · "Forever — is composed of Nows"
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Like a star: without haste, but without rest.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Zahme Xenien
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The best is the enemy of the good.Voltaire · Dictionnaire philosophique / La Bégueule
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