It’s not the blow that hurts, but your resistance to falling.
Stoicism isn’t for museums—it’s for streets.
Epictetus Enchiridion 1: Some things are within our power, while others are not.
Even oaks need forests.
Control your breath, and the world stops shaking you.
Share your struggle and halve its weight.
Calm isn’t the absence of chaos, but mastery over it.