“stop seeking the impossible…”…The Daily Stoic

“stop seeking the impossible…”…The Daily Stoic

forget the small potatoes…

 

 

“…stop seeking the impossible,

     the short-sighted,

          and the unnecessary.”

 

from The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman

New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2016

p. 101

 

Of course, I realize that each person has a personal definition of “the impossible, the short-sighted, and the unnecessary.”

The point is:

Forget about what you can’t change, and forget about the small potato stuff.

Commit to doing a good thing.

Commit to resisting the bad stuff that touches you in ways you can avoid.

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