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“It is the deepest of wrongs I am driven to write…. And losing you was one of them.”

“So many people in the world feel they don’t have a voice to speak out on what they don’t like, or what’s troubling them. You do have a voice, the lord gave you. So, wash away the fear of not being heard that surrounds you. Don’t ever let someone else speak for you. Don’t put your thoughts in their hands, as they carry away your emotions down a path you don’t know. These are your thoughts and feeling, and they should be express calmly by you, relieving your mind of the unspoken burden you’ve lived with.”

“We are what we repeatedly do,' Aristotle said. 'Therefore, excellence is not an act, but a habit.' The stoics add to that that we are a product of our thoughts: 'Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind'; Marcus Aurelius put it. Think about your activities of the last week, as well as what you have planned for today and the week that follows. The person you'd like to be...how close do your actions actually correspond to him or her? Which fire are you feeding? Which person are you becoming?”