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• “When all think alike, then no one is thinking.” — Walter Lippmann
• The modern approach of stoicism is simple: Keep control of how you approach things to keep your emotions in check. If you do it correctly, you’ll be able to navigate complex situations in a logical, informed, and calm manner. The key idea is to understand what’s in our control and what’s not.
• Thinking you can master your emotions is at best naive and cute, at worst a rejection of your existence.
• Life is the happiness of a sunset over a calm and turquoise sea. But life is also the anger, hatred, and sadness that pushes you to your limits, into questioning that makes you a better person in the end.
• Living life is embracing everything that makes up its meaning. Spending life is sucking up its substance. Emotions are the substance of life. Embracing emotions, all kinds of emotions, is living.

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