Quote of the day

 "Is this what you've been anxious to learn: how to be delivered from grief, disturbance, and humiliation, and be free? Haven't you heard, then, that there is only a single path that leads to that end: to give up things that lie outside the sphere of choice, and turn away from them, and acknowledge that they're not your own. The opinion that someone else holds about you, then, what kind of a thing is that? - 'Something that lies outside the sphere of choice.' - So isn't it nothing to you? - 'Nothing at all.' - So while you continue to be disturbed and nettled by the opinion of others, do you suppose that you're properly convinced about what is good and bad?" - Epictetus, Discourses 4.6