"The magic that you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding."

"You become what you give your attention to"

“Your enemies can be more useful to you than your friends, because your friends can often pardon your weaknesses, but your enemies notice them and attract your attention to them. Do not neglect the opinion of your enemies.”

"Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out."

"It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path."

"Once you label me you negate me. "

"Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others."

"The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion."

"The unhappy person is never present to themselves because they always live in the past or the future."

"The most common form of despair is not being who you are."

"It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories."

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”

"We don’t rise to the occasion, we fall to the level of our training."

"When the oppressed becomes oppressor, as it (almost) inevitably happens, do not expect too much charity, understanding, & compassion."

"The rarest of human qualities is consistency." — J

"If it didn’t demand discomfort and sacrifice and patient endurance, then no discipline would be required, and everyone would do it."

"Carefully choose the problems you want to solve. Get in the flow, enjoying solving them. Ignore the rest."

When government feasts, the people starve.

Happy "Día de los muertos!"

You become what you give your attention to" — Epictetus