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What did the Stoics teach about letting go?
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“The longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have, you cannot lose.”
Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.
Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
No one can lose either the past or the future—how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess? It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.
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The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
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Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.
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