“Trouble is bound to come, so cultivating the right attitude is crucial. Anger diminishes our power to distinguish right from wrong, and this ability is one of the highest human attributes. If it is lost, we are lost. Sometimes it is necessary to respond strongly, but this can be done without anger. Anger is not [...]
“Habit is overcome by habit.” — Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book 1.21 Self-improvement is, essentially, the development of good habits and the purging of bad ones. While bad habits are often easy to develop, positive habits need constant reinforcement to make sure that they take hold and root out the negative practices [...]
“Every man is worth just so much as the things about which he busies himself.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book VII.3 This quote captures, in a single line, what may be the most important principle of time management. It’s the realization that a person is the sum of the actions of his life; that you [...]
