Nassim Nicholas Taleb: A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation…
A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
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- The fear of God is proactive…the fear of man is reactive.
- Every person has scars. They come in all shapes and sizes. There are physical, emotional and spiritual scars and they all have one thing in common: you decide WHAT the scar means. What it means is more important than how or why a scar happened. You have the power to turn scars into stars, tragedy into triumph and meaningless into magnificence.
- Until we can see things from God's perspective we cannot receive God's directive.
- Never allow the shadow of worry to make something bigger than it is.
- Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
- From which we may learn that true courage is not incompatible with nervousness, and that heroism does not mean the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.