Personal outlook

The focus of comparing your emotions is often to minimize ether what you are feeling or what they are feeling. some examples include:

• You might think that you don't have the right to be upset about something because someone else is going through something worse.
• You might feel ...

The Stoic says that everything else– disease, war, suffering, others’ aggression toward you– is completely neutral and is neither good nor evil.

This is what is meant by “The Inner Citadel.” The Stoics believed that your soul is your stronghold. It’s the only thing over which you have compl...

You define yourself not by the attributes that make you the same as everyone else—has two arms, two legs, breathes air—but, rather, by the attributes that make you different from everyone else—spent

A group defined by its similarity to others is, by definition, no group at all. Your socia...