perseverance, a photo by withrow on Flickr.
'I have an aim, which compels me to go on living and for the sake of which I must cope with even the most painful of matters. Without this aim I would take things much more lightly - that is, I would stop living.'
Friedrich Nietzsche, letter to Franz Overbeck, summer 1883
Mindfulness, a photo by jah~ on Flickr.
'They (the Stoics) argued that happiness was not something guaranteed by other people or things.
These are changeable and out of our control.
All that we can be sure of is our own soul: for good or ill, all happiness is prefaced on this preparedness.
It takes mindfulness, discipline, honesty.'
by Dr Damon Young, philosopher at the University of Melbourne, and author of Distraction.
from The Saturday Age, 30-31 December 2011, p. 17
