“A brave man isn’t someone who doesn’t experience any trace of fear whatsoever but someone who acts courageously despite feeling anxiety.
A man who has great self-discipline or restraint isn’t someone who feels no inkling of desire but someone who overcomes his cravings, by abstaining from acting upon them.”
By Donald Robertson
“Right, no one said anything about not feeling it. No one said you can’t ever cry. Forget ‘manliness.’ If you need to take a moment, by all means, go ahead.
Real strength lies in the control or, as Nassim Taleb put it, the domestication of one’s emotions, not in pretending they don’t exist.”
By Ryan Holidays
Having gone through the highs and lows of emotions and corresponding positive and negative feelings in my life so many times, like all humans, I completely agree with the messages of the above quotes that we must accept our feelings as they are - and live them without denying their existence - but control them with the arms and ammunition of reasoning.
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