"Do not waste the time you have left thinking about others unless it serves some good and useful purpose, for it takes you away from other work..."
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 3.4
"You can get rid of many superfluous troubles that depend entirely on your beliefs, and you’ll immediately provide yourself with plenty of mental space."
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 9.32
"...To be sorry we will not be alive a hundred years from now is as foolish as to be sorry we were not alive a hundred years ago."
- Montaigne, That to Study Philosophy is to Learn to Die
Stoic reminder from Chuck Chakrapani:
You cannot change the past, no matter how recently or how far back something happened. What happened in the past or when it happened is not relevant to your freedom now.
"An effective insult requires a kind of cooperation from the victim – a judgment, for example, that the insult matters."
- Ward Farnsworth, The Practicing Stoic