Calm isn’t the absence of chaos, but mastery over it.
Stoicism isn’t for museums—it’s for streets.
It’s not the blow that hurts, but your resistance to falling.
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.
Adversity is the Stoic’s gym.