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The Art of Living by Epictetus

Books Are Great

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Accepting the Bad Things

"I think one of the things that the Stoics said that I really liked was the, just live like every day is your last," he says. "You've got 10 years to 15 years, you know, somewhere between 9 and 15 years is how long you have that best friend." If we don't accept the bad things in this world, then we're setting ourselves up for false expectations when things get bad, which they will, it's going to be bad, according to life.

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