Stoic Life Lessons Men Learn Too Late In Life — BE UNSHAKEABLE — Transcript

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1. 0:00inwardly
2. 0:01everything should be different
3. 0:04but our outward face
4. 0:06should conform with the crowd
5. 0:12anyone who can make you angry
6. 0:15becomes your master
7. 0:20the first rule is to keep
8. 0:22an untroubled spirit
9. 0:25the second is to look things in the face
10. 0:27and know them for what they are
11. 0:33when you arise in the morning
12. 0:35think of what a privilege it is to be
13. 0:37alive
14. 0:39to think
15. 0:41to enjoy
16. 0:43to love
17. 0:47you have power over your mind
18. 0:50not outside events
19. 0:53realize this
20. 0:55and you will find strength
21. 1:00he suffers more than necessary who
22. 1:03suffers before it is necessary
23. 1:09be like the cliff against which the
24. 1:12waves continually break
25. 1:14but it stands firm and tames the fury of
26. 1:17the water around it
27. 1:23nature hath given men one tongue but two
28. 1:26ears
29. 1:28that we may hear from others twice as
30. 1:30much as we speak
31. 1:35people are frugal in guarding their
32. 1:38personal property but as soon as it
33. 1:40comes to squandering time they are most
34. 1:43wasteful of one thing
35. 1:46in which it is right to be stingy
36. 1:52begin it wants to live and count each
37. 1:55separate day as a separate life
38. 2:01if you really want to escape the things
39. 2:03that harass you
40. 2:05what you're needing is not to be in a
41. 2:07different place
42. 2:09but
43. 2:09to be a different person
44. 2:15until we have begun to go without them
45. 2:18we fail to realize how unnecessary many
46. 2:20things are
47. 2:22we've been using them not because we
48. 2:25needed them
49. 2:26but because we had them
50. 2:32if a man knows not which port he sails
51. 2:36no wind is favorable
52. 2:41we all love ourselves more than other
53. 2:43people
54. 2:45but care more about their opinion than
55. 2:48our own
56. 2:52here
57. 2:53is a rule to remember in future
58. 2:56when anything tempts you to feel bitter
59. 2:59not
60. 3:01this is misfortune but to bear this
61. 3:04worthily
62. 3:06is good fortune
63. 3:10man conquers the world by conquering
64. 3:13himself
65. 3:18waste no more time arguing what a good
66. 3:20man should be
67. 3:23be one
68. 3:27the things you think about determine the
69. 3:29quality of your mind
70. 3:34if it is not right
71. 3:36do not do it
72. 3:38if it is not true
73. 3:40do not say it
74. 3:45it's not what happens to you
75. 3:48but how you react to it that matters
76. 3:54everything we hear is an opinion not a
77. 3:57fact
78. 3:59everything we see is a perspective
79. 4:03not the truth
80. 4:07luck is what happens when preparation
81. 4:10meets opportunity
82. 4:16it is not the man who has too little
83. 4:18but the man who craves more that is poor
84. 4:25knowing yourself is the beginning of all
85. 4:27wisdom
86. 4:32difficulty shows what men are
87. 4:38to be everywhere
88. 4:39is to be nowhere
89. 4:44death smiles at us all
90. 4:47all we can do
91. 4:49is smile back
92. 4:54the more we value things outside our
93. 4:56control
94. 4:58the less control we have
95. 5:03nothing endures but
96. 5:08change a person's worth is measured by
97. 5:12the worth
98. 5:13of what he values
99. 5:18if you want to improve
100. 5:21be content to be thought foolish and
101. 5:23stupid
102. 5:27anger if not restrained
103. 5:30is frequently more hurtful to us than
104. 5:33the injury that provokes it
105. 5:38no man was ever wise by chance
106. 5:45he who is brave
107. 5:47is free
108. 5:52your sense of injury
109. 5:54and the injury itself disappears
110. 6:01the willing are led by fate
111. 6:03the reluctant dragged
112. 6:08what we do now echoes in eternity
113. 6:15while we wait for life
114. 6:17life passes
115. 6:22the one who puts the finishing touches
116. 6:24on their life each day
117. 6:26is never short of time
118. 6:32it's time you realize that you have
119. 6:34something in you more powerful and
120. 6:36miraculous
121. 6:37than the things that affect you
122. 6:40and make you dance like a puppet
123. 6:45wealth consists not in having great
124. 6:48possessions
125. 6:50but in having few wants
126. 6:53[Music]
127. 6:55be silent for the most part or
128. 6:59if you speak
129. 7:00say only what is necessary in a few
130. 7:03words
131. 7:07all cruelty springs from weakness
132. 7:14it is a rough road that leads to the
133. 7:16heights of greatness
134. 7:21do every act of your life
135. 7:24as though it were the very last act of
136. 7:26your life
137. 7:30whatever can happen at any time
138. 7:33can happen today
139. 7:38don't explain your philosophy
140. 7:40embody it
141. 7:44because a thing seems difficult for you
142. 7:48do not think it impossible for anyone to
143. 7:50accomplish
144. 7:54freedom is secured not by the fulfilling
145. 7:57of men's desires
146. 8:00but by the removal of desire
147. 8:06circumstances don't make the man
148. 8:09they only reveal him to himself
149. 8:15it is not death that a man should fear
150. 8:18but he should fear never beginning to
151. 8:20live
152. 8:24the key is to keep company only with
153. 8:27people who uplift you
154. 8:29whose presence
155. 8:30calls forth your best
156. 8:36humans have come into being for the sake
157. 8:38of each other
158. 8:40so either teach them
159. 8:42or learn to bear them
160. 8:48it can ruin your life only if it ruins
161. 8:50your character
162. 8:52otherwise it cannot harm you
163. 8:55inside or out
164. 9:00the happiness of your life depends upon
165. 9:02the quality of your thoughts
166. 9:08mastery of reading and writing requires
167. 9:11a master
168. 9:13still more so life
169. 9:18life is very short and anxious for those
170. 9:21who forget the past neglect the present
171. 9:25and fear the future
172. 9:29be tolerant with others
173. 9:32and strict with yourself
174. 9:37your days are numbered
175. 9:39use them to throw open the windows of
176. 9:42your soul
177. 9:43to the sun
178. 9:46if you do not
179. 9:47the sun will soon set
180. 9:50and you with it
181. 9:54the best revenge
182. 9:56is to be unlike him who performed the
183. 9:59injury
184. 10:04sometimes even to live is an act of
185. 10:07courage
186. 10:11it's not that we have little time
187. 10:13but more that we waste a good deal of it
188. 10:19whatever happens at all happens as it
189. 10:23should
190. 10:24you will find this true
191. 10:26if you watch narrowly
192. 10:31our life is what our thoughts make it
193. 10:37how much more grievous are the
194. 10:39consequences of anger
195. 10:42than the causes of it
196. 10:47he who fears death
197. 10:48will never do anything worthy of a man
198. 10:51who is alive
199. 10:56we live only now
200. 10:58everything else is either past or is
201. 11:01unknown
202. 11:05progress is not achieved by luck or
203. 11:07accident
204. 11:09but by working on yourself daily
205. 11:15in banquets remember that you entertain
206. 11:17two guests
207. 11:19body and soul
208. 11:22and whatever you shall have given to the
209. 11:24body you soon
210. 11:26eject but what you shall have given to
211. 11:29the soul
212. 11:31you keep always
213. 11:36no person has the power to have
214. 11:38everything they want
215. 11:40but
216. 11:41it is in their power not to want what
217. 11:43they don't have
218. 11:45and to cheerfully put to good use
219. 11:48what they do have
220. 11:53if what you have seems insufficient to
221. 11:55you
222. 11:57then though you possess the world
223. 12:00you will yet be miserable
224. 12:05he is the most powerful
225. 12:08who has power over himself
226. 12:13difficulties strengthen the mind
227. 12:16as labor does the body
228. 12:21as is a tale so is life
229. 12:24not how long it is but how good it is is
230. 12:28what matters
231. 12:32life if well lived is long enough
232. 12:38the best answer to anger is silence
233. 12:42agreed
234. 12:43but nature set a limit on that
235. 12:46as it did on eating and drinking
236. 12:52nowhere can man find a quieter or more
237. 12:54untroubled retreat
238. 12:56than in his own soul
239. 13:02he who has injured thee
240. 13:04was either stronger or weaker than thee
241. 13:08if weaker
242. 13:09spare him
243. 13:11if stronger
244. 13:12spare thyself
245. 13:17the impediment to action advances action
246. 13:21what stands in the way becomes the way
247. 13:27to wish to be well is a part of becoming
248. 13:30well
249. 13:34receive without conceit
250. 13:37release without struggle
251. 13:42no great thing is created suddenly
252. 13:45any more than a bunch of grapes or fig
253. 13:49if you tell me that you desire a fig i
254. 13:51answer that there must be time
255. 13:55let it first blossom
256. 13:57then bear fruit
257. 13:58then ripen
258. 14:03we suffer more often in imagination than
259. 14:06in reality
260. 14:10no man can escape his destiny
261. 14:13the next inquiry being how he may best
262. 14:16live the time that he has to live
263. 14:22the whole future lies in uncertainty
264. 14:26live immediately
265. 14:31every new beginning comes from some
266. 14:33other beginning's end
267. 14:38but life is very short and anxious for
268. 14:41those who forget the past
269. 14:43neglect the present
270. 14:45and fear the future
271. 14:46[Music]
272. 14:50we suffer not from the events in our
273. 14:52lives
274. 14:53but from our judgment about them
275. 14:59it is our attitude toward events not
276. 15:02events themselves which we can control
277. 15:06nothing is by its own nature calamitous
278. 15:10even death is terrible only if we fear
279. 15:13it
280. 15:16if evil be said of thee
281. 15:18and if it be true
282. 15:21correct thyself
283. 15:23if it is a lie
284. 15:25laugh at it
285. 15:29attach yourself to what is spiritually
286. 15:31superior regardless of what other people
287. 15:34think or do
288. 15:36hold to your true aspirations no matter
289. 15:39what is going on around you
290. 15:44confine yourself to the present
291. 15:50no man is free who is not a master of
292. 15:53himself
293. 15:57very little is needed to make a happy
294. 15:59life
295. 16:01it is all within yourself in your way of
296. 16:04thinking
297. 16:08if you live in harmony with nature
298. 16:10you will never be poor
299. 16:13if you live according to what others
300. 16:14think
301. 16:16you will never be rich
302. 16:20learn to be indifferent to what makes no
303. 16:23difference
304. 16:27the greatest blessings of mankind are
305. 16:30within us and within our reach
306. 16:34a wise man is content with his lot
307. 16:37whatever it may be
308. 16:39without wishing for what he has not
309. 16:45man is not worried by real problems
310. 16:48so much as by his imagined anxieties
311. 16:51about real problems
312. 16:56small-minded people blame others
313. 16:59average people blame themselves
314. 17:02the wise see all blame as foolishness
315. 17:09respect the past be open to the future
316. 17:16the life we receive is not short but we
317. 17:18make it so
318. 17:20we are not ill provided but use what we
319. 17:23have wastefully
320. 17:28stay calm and serene
321. 17:31regardless of what life throws at you