a-guide-to-the-good-life-the-ancient-art-of-stoic-joy
Practical introduction to Stoic philosophy as a system for attaining tranquility, resilience, and lasting contentment in modern life.
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we are unlikely to have a good and meaningful life unless we can overcome our insatiability. — location: 165 ^ref-54287
One key to happiness, then, is to forestall the adaptation process: We need to take steps to prevent ourselves from taking for granted, once we get them, the things we worked so hard to get. — location: 821 ^ref-2074
the easiest way for us to gain happiness is to learn how to want the things we already have. — location: 827 ^ref-56439
spend time imagining that we have lost the things we value—that our wife has left us, our car was stolen, or we lost our job. — location: 830 ^ref-11229
Most of us spend our idle moments thinking about the things we want but don’t have. We would be much better off, Marcus says, to spend this time thinking of all the things we have and reflecting on how much we would miss them if they were not ours.12 Along these lines, we should think about how we would feel if we lost our material possessions, including our house, car, clothing, pets, and bank balance; how we would feel if we lost our abilities, including our ability to speak, hear, walk, breathe, and swallow; and — location: 872 ^ref-35927
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