QUOTE A DAY - August 20, 2015

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*---- Quote For The Day ----*
To educate oneself so as to adopt an attitude of skepticism towards one's causal theories, and one of intellectual modesty, is, without doubt, one of the most important moral duties.
--Karl Popper, 'The Open Society and Its Enemies'

A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
--Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
--John Burroughs


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
The impulse to blame something or someone is foolishness. There is nothing to be gained in blaming, whether it be others or oneself.
--Epictetus

When you are impeccable, you take responsibility for your actions, but you do not judge or blame yourself.
--don Miguel Ruiz

It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame. Take responsibility for your whole life - regardless of circumstances.
--Jonathan Lockwood Huie


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

ANSWER: Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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