peace-comes-from-within
Calmness and inner peace does not come from the external world. happiness-does-not-lie-in-external-validation. It is something you cultivate from within yourself. Life-is-Suffering but the way you react to it can develop your inner peace.
The stoics talk about the need to develop this inner peace:
… if a person could develop peace within themselves—if they could achieve apatheia, as they called it—then the whole world could be at war, and they could still think well, work well, and be well.
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happiness-does-not-lie-in-external-validation
One of the hardest lessons I’ve had to learn is [[do-not-create-art-for-the-validation-of-other-people]]. You need to create it for yourself, or for...