The Stoic Magazine Library

While embarrassment is acute and temporary, shame is chronic and it lasts if you don’t treat it.

If your life is haunted by loneliness, invite beauty in. Become willing to experience happiness. They will begin to keep you company

I don’t believe in denying myself the pleasures of a glorious autumn day. I’m tempted to give in to the confidence that future me will figure it all out. But if I did that I would be acting like a child and not an adult.