It’s not the blow that hurts, but your resistance to falling.
Share your struggle and halve its weight.
Calm isn’t the absence of chaos, but mastery over it.
Marcus Aurelius Meditations 2.11: You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say.
Knowledge without action is a ship without oars.
Epictetus Enchiridion 1: Some things are within our power, while others are not.
Control your breath, and the world stops shaking you.
Even oaks need forests.
Adversity is the Stoic’s gym.