30 Stoic lessons from Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus:

1. Focus on what you can control.

2. "You become what you give your attention to." — Epictetus

3. "We suffer more in imagination than in reality." — Seneca

4. You can’t learn what you think you already know.

5. Stop waiting to demand the best for yourself.

6. "Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself." — Marcus Aurelius

7. "Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it." — Epictetus

8. Associate only with people who improve you.

9. "The greatest remedy for anger is delay." — Seneca

10. Value time more than possessions

11. You always own the option of having no opinion.

12. "Never be overheard complaining...even to yourself." — Marcus Aurelius

13. Most of what we say and do is not essential.

14. Difficulties show a person's character.

15. "Limit yourself to the present." — Marcus Aurelius

16. Receive without pride, let go without attachment.

17. Stop caring about what other people say, think, or do.

18. Anxiety is within you and your perceptions, not outside.

19. Focus on effort, not results.

20. To improve, you have to be OK with looking foolish.

21. Build a life you don't need to escape from.

22. "Don't be ashamed of needing help." — Marcus Aurelius

23. No one can make you upset—you choose to be.

24. Never look outside yourself for approval.

25. Every human being is an opportunity for kindness.

26. Say no to the things that don’t matter, so you can say yes to the things that do.

27. Think progress, not perfection.

28. Keep learning…to the end of your life.

29. The obstacle is the way.

30. Death is not in the distant future. We are dying every day