The Meditations
The Meditations
Begin each day by telling yourself: I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness-all of them due to the offenders' ignorance of what is g..
Man's Youth
Man's Youth
Man's Youth is a wonderful thing: it is so full of anguish and of magic and he never comes to know it as it is, until it has gone from him forever. It is the thing he cannot bear to l..
Put the Glass Down
Put the Glass Down
A lecturer was giving a lecture to his students on stress management.
He raised a glass of water and asked the audience, "How heavy do yo..
On Pleasure
On Pleasure
Since pleasure is the first good and natural to us, for this very reason we do not choose every pleasure, but sometimes we pass over many pleasures, when greater discomfort accrues to us as the result of them..
Rich as a King
Rich as a King
William I, who conquered England some 930 years ago, had wealth, power and a ruthless army. Yet although William was stupefyingly rich by the standard of his time, he had nothing remotely resembling a flus..