We Can Be Hurt…Or We Can Do This Instead | Ask Daily Stoic
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We Can Be Hurt…Or We Can Do This Instead | Ask Daily Stoic

People will betray us in life. They will take from us. We can be hurt and broken and angry about this, or we can use it as Epictetus did—as a reminder of the transient nature of possession.


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