Quotes that resonate, from ‘How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management’ by Seneca, selected, translated and introduced by James Romm.      [17] Credulity is the source of most evil. Often you should refuse to even listen, for being deceived is better than being...

Quotes that resonate, from ‘How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management’ by Seneca, selected, translated and introduced by James Romm.      [16]  [T]he cause of anger is the sense of having been wronged; but one ought not to trust this sense. Don’t make your...

Quotes that resonate, from ‘How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management’ by Seneca, selected, translated and introduced by James Romm.      [15] Let childhood be kept far away from flattery; let it hear the truth. Let it feel fear now and then, respect always, and...

Quotes that resonate, from ‘How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management’ by Seneca, selected, translated and introduced by James Romm.    [12] To get angry on behalf of one’s kin is the mark of a weak mind, not a loyal one. It is this that is noble and...

Quotes that resonate, from ‘How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management’ by Seneca, selected, translated and introduced by James Romm.  [11]   It is best to repel instantly the very first prickings of anger, to stamp out its very seedlings, to take pains not to be...

Quotes that resonate, from ‘How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management’ by Seneca, selected, translated and introduced by James Romm.  [10] [S]ome men think it valuable to moderate anger rather than set it aside, for force it to conform to a healthy measure and...

Quotes that resonate, from ‘How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management’ by Seneca, selected, translated and introduced by James Romm.   [9] [T]o understand that those in the grips of anger are not sane, look at how they present themselves. For just as madness...

  Quotes that resonate, from ‘How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management’ by Seneca, selected, translated and introduced by James Romm.   [7] It [i.e. anger] rushes to arms and greedily seeks a vengeance that will only drag the avenger down with it.  [8] Some wise...

Quotes that resonate, from ‘How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management’ by Seneca, selected, translated and introduced by James Romm. [6] [A Stoic’s Daily Zen-like Self-Review] Seneca, to judge by his self-presentation in his writings, was a self-reflective...

Quotes that resonate, from ‘How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management’ by Seneca, selected, translated and introduced by James Romm. [1] Your anger is a kind of madness, because you set a high price on worthless things. [2] Draw further back, and laugh. [3] The...

  Thoughts from ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee (as adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham): As we are all dying, why waste a single moment’s thought, by being angry at another? Being trapped in this dying state is already a physical sickness. Being angry is to add...

  Thoughts from ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee (as adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham):     Justice can take time to be served, with each ‘battle’ crucial for the ‘war’. Even each subsequent defeat, that is less of a defeat than the previous, it...

  Thoughts from ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee (as adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham):     You can never really know someone unless you can read his or her mind, to know how he or she thinks and feels. That is when you might have more understanding than bewilderment,...

  Thoughts from ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee (as adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham):   Human courts of law run upon imperfect laws written by imperfect humans, presided over by imperfect judges, imperfect jury members and imperfect lawyers, who interpret the law and...

  Thoughts from ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee (as adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham):   What does it mean to be ladylike? Simply by being in a dress? How about being gentle(womanly) in thought, word and deed, unlike the old lady skewed in her perception, and harsh in...

  Thoughts from ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee (as adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham): The best fight is the one walked away from; not the one that hurt anyone, even if it is someone else. The best wars are those that never started, and those that...

  Thoughts from ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee (as adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham): No, don’t shoot any birds at all, mockingbirds or not – not for fun, or for sports. To do so is to mock the birds shot, to cheapen their lives, to see them to be of...

  The following few posts are with thoughts inspired by ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee (as adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham). Above is a key quote from the book, and a still from the movie version. In these troubled times, all who feel ‘troubled’ by other...

#37: Wisdom Quotes Below are quotes that resonate, from Leo Tolstoy’s ‘A Calendar Of Wisdom’.       [1] Wisdom is the knowledge of the application of eternal truths to life. – Tolstoy [2] A scholar knows many thing, but for most part things of an unnecessary and...

#36: Wisdom Quotes Below are quotes that resonate, from Leo Tolstoy’s ‘A Calendar Of Wisdom’.       [1] Act during the day so that you can sleep soundly at night, and in your youth so that you can have a calm old age. – Indian proverb [2] If your own faith is weak, you...

#35: Wisdom Quotes Below are quotes that resonate, from Leo Tolstoy’s ‘A Calendar Of Wisdom’.         [1] Through compassion, humility and self-denial, you will disarm any possible enemy. No fire can continue to burn if there is no wood. – Sinhalese Buddhist saying [2]...

#34: Wisdom Quotes      Below are quotes that resonate, from Leo Tolstoy’s ‘A Calendar Of Wisdom’.         [1] The first rule for the attainment of virtue is to think only about how one can perfect oneself, rather than always looking for universal praise. – Chinese...

#33: Wisdom Quotes      Below are quotes that resonate, from Leo Tolstoy’s ‘A Calendar Of Wisdom’.       [1] We think that self-renunciation compromises our freedom. But we are not aware that it is only our self-renunciation that gives us real freedom, as it liberates us...

#32: Wisdom Quotes Below are quotes that resonate, from Leo Tolstoy’s ‘A Calendar Of Wisdom’.      [1] The purpose of life is not to act in accordance with the will of the majority, but to live your life in such a way that it is in harmony with your own inner law. –...

#31: Wisdom Quotes      Below are quotes that resonate, from Leo Tolstoy’s ‘A Calendar Of Wisdom’.      [1] The person who is in love with himself has one advantage: he will have few rivals. – Lictenberg, ‘Aphorisms and Reflections’ [2] It takes a big...

#30: Wisdom Quotes Below are quotes that resonate, from Leo Tolstoy’s ‘A Calendar Of Wisdom’.     [1] True love is not love for one person exclusively, but an emotional feeling for all people – a condition in which we are aware of the divine essence of our...

#29: Wisdom Quotes    Below are quotes that resonate, from Leo Tolstoy’s ‘A Calendar Of Wisdom’.    [1] The truly noble person is the one who can easily forgive other people’s mistakes, while at the same time being so afraid of doing anything wrong himself. –...

#28: Wisdom Quotes      Below are quotes that resonate, from Leo Tolstoy’s ‘A Calendar Of Wisdom’.        [1] To disabuse people of their errors means to add something rather than to take something away from them. To unmask an untruth means to propagate the truth; the...

#27: Wisdom Quotes      Below are quotes that resonate, from Leo Tolstoy’s ‘A Calendar Of Wisdom’.           [1] You are afraid of death, but just think what it would be like to be condemned to eternal life as the same individual you are at present. – Tolstoy [2] It is...

#26: Wisdom Quotes      Below are quotes that resonate, from Leo Tolstoy’s ‘A Calendar Of Wisdom’.         [1] To drug or poison yourself, no matter how you d it, is not of itself a crime, but it can be preparing yourself to commit crimes of every sort. – Tolstoy [2]...