“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.” - Norman Vincent Peale
 
How do you use criticism to make you better?

“The only way we can live is if we grow.
The only way we can grow is if we change.
The only way we can change is if we learn.
The only way we can learn is if we are exposed.
And the only way we are exposed
Is if we throw ourselves into the open.” - C. Joybell
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How do you expose yourself to growth?

“Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.” - Wilma Rudolph
 
How do you use your dreams to reach your greatness?

Two Strangers Who Meet Five Times - Award Winning Short Film

“The remarkable person is one who can be both invincible and invisible at the same time.” - Anthony Liccione
 
How are you able to be obscure and indomitable at the same time?

“My father didn’t tell me how to live. He lived, and let me watch him do it.” - Clarence Budington Kelland
 
How do you live so others will learn?

“Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.” - Ausonius
 
How is your happiness adding to your youth?

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” - Mark Twain
 
How are you showing kindness to others?

“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” - CS Lewis
 
How are you working on your ending?

This is a time of uncertainty. It is a time of change. It’s a time when options have been eliminated, when hard choices are being made.
This is a time of uncertainty. It is a time of change. It’s a time when options have been eliminated, when hard choices are being made.
What does a Stoic do? When they’ve lost their job? When their income has dropped by half? When they’ve had to bury a sibling or a grandparent, or shutter a business or a close out a dream?
They do what is necessary.
This is a constant theme in Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations. Here was a man supporting a large family, with a difficult job, facing a plague, facing enemies, facing his own ill-health. Yet time and time again he reminds himself: My priority is to be good. My duty is to serve. I will not waver. I will not quit. I will not be heard complaining. I will keep going, unswerving, to the finish line.
In his time, this was what it meant to “be a man,” or “to be a Roman.” But the Stoics also knew that there is nothing gendered or nationalistic about those four critical virtues of courage and justice and moderation and wisdom. There was nothing “ancient” about them either. Because they are what you’re called to do today. They are the answer to that question you and so many people are being forced to ask yourself right now.
What do you do?
You must do what is necessary. You must be brave, good, wise, and self-disciplined. Today and always.

“Only time can heal what reason cannot.” - Seneca
 
How is time healing the pain you cannot understand?