At certain points in life for some individuals, hardship is a given, but losing your integrity is a choice. The storms of life are designed to test your principles, not break them.ποΈ
The Stoics believed that feelings do not just happen to us out of nowhere. They are generated by the judgments we make about our circumstances.
Epictetus perfectly summarized this: "Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them."