#38 Aristotle: Be Mean, Please

#79 Push Yourself

#127 Joseph Campbell: Excitement

#128 Phone Call from God

#175 Joseph Campbell: Hero’s Forest

#176 Joseph Campbell: Shedding Skin

#177 Joseph Campbell: Omelets

#178 Joseph Campbell: Jump!

#267 Lover of Wisdom

#269 Vernon Howard: Vernon Howard

#368 Socrates: The Combat

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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.

~ Socrates Quotes

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As poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore reminds us, “We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water.” Simplicity has power. And living on purpose comes to this: Just do it. How much simpler can we get?

~ Dan Millman Quotes

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"When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that he hadn't come to Asia with the intention of accepting whatever they cared to give him, but of letting them keep whatever he chose to leave them.' Philosophy, likewise, tells all other occupations: It's not my intention to accept whatever time is leftover from you; you shall have, instead, what I reject.' Give your whole mind to her."

~ Seneca Quotes from Letters from a Stoic

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"The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live."

~ Seneca Quotes from Letters from a Stoic

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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.

~ Seneca Quotes from Letters from a Stoic

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Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.

~ Seneca Quotes from Letters from a Stoic

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Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness…she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.

~ Seneca Quotes from Letters from a Stoic

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What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

~ Epictetus Quotes

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Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? "What sinews are those?" -- A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions.

~ Epictetus Quotes

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"The warrior: silent in his struggle, undetainable because he has nothing to lose, functional and efficacious because he has everything to gain."

~ Carlos Castaneda Quotes from A Separate Reality

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