The Power of an Inner Life

The man who has no inner life

is a slave to his surroundings.

Henri-Frédérik Amiel

1. Put your attention where you want it.

2. Keep your inner music playing.

3. Have a dream (mental destination/fuel).

4. Find a friend who gets you.

5. Put up a fight.

6. Integrate beauty into your life.

7. Don't put a prison around your mind.

8. Let pain change you (for the better).

9. Express your inner world in the outer.

10. Give yourself a project.

11. Invest in people.

12. Escape your prison.

13. Save yourself.

14. Reserve a few secrets just for yourself.

15. Keep hope alive.

1. On the nature of things.

2. On choice and ethics.

3. The emotions.

4. Finding purpose.

5. Get busy living.

Align yourself with nature;

a universe of benevolent entropy.

Feel your troubles - then overcome them.

Focus your mind.

Claim your virtues.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he

stands in moments of comfort and convenience,

but where he stands at times

of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Act with purpose.

Champions are made from something they have

deep inside of them - a desire, a dream, a vision.

Mahatma Gandhi

Seek out friendships.

Learn to value yourself.

If someone tried to take control of your body and

make you a slave, you would fight for freedom.

Yet how easily you hand over your

mind to anyone who insults you.

When you dwell on their words and

let them dominate your thoughts,

you make them your master.

Epictetus

End in peace.

You are not a drop in the ocean;

You are the entire ocean in a drop.

Rumi

Happy is the man who can make others better,

not merely when he is in their company,

but even when he is in their thoughts.

Seneca