Don't Explain Your Philosophy. Embody It.

“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”

—Epictetus

Kahlil Gibran:

“Your children are not your children.

They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you,

And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,

For they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls,

For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.

For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.

Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;

For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.”

—Kahlil Gibran

“Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.”

—Epictetus

What’s meant to be will be

Remember, effortlessness not force

“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

—Epictetus

“When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.”

—Plato