People love quotes. They put them on mugs, Instagram stats, Pinterest boards, and LinkedIn profiles. Most of the time, they’re little pieces of “motivation” no one remembers five minutes later.
I found 7 Stoic quotes that are so brutally honest they’ll probably offend you. But there’s a catch, if you can stomach them, they might actually change you.
But by the end, you’ll see yourself differently
Read slowly. Let them work on you.
1. “If You Want to Know Someone, Look At What Makes Him Angry.” — Seneca
Anger is a lantern. Hold it up and it shows where shadows hide.
We want to believe that our rage is righteous, pure, warranted. But it isn’t. It’s not justice, actually, usually. It’s ego. Anger is the slip up. The glitch in the mask.
We don’t actually know people until we see what sets them off.
If traffic gets under your skin, perhaps control is your idol.
