“We don’t abandon our pursuits because we despair of ever perfecting them.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 1.2.37b Tunayo siku nyingine mpya nw nzuri sana kwetu wanamafanikio, Siku bora na ya kipekee sana kwetu kwenda kuweka juhudi kubwa ili kuweza kupata matokeo bora sana. Kwa msingi wetu wa NIDHAMU, UADILIFU NA KUJITUMA pamoja (more…)
“Don’t tell yourself anything more than what the initial impressions report. It’s been reported to you that someone is speaking badly about you. This is the report—the report wasn’t that you’ve been harmed. I see that my son is sick—but not that his life is at risk. So always stay (more…)
“Do now what nature demands of you. Get right to it if that’s in your power. Don’t look around to see if people will know about it. Don’t await the perfection of Plato’s Republic, but be satisfied with even the smallest step forward and regard the outcome as a small (more…)
“Do now what nature demands of you. Get right to it if that’s in your power. Don’t look around to see if people will know about it. Don’t await the perfection of Plato’s Republic, but be satisfied with even the smallest step forward and regard the outcome as a small (more…)
“Wherever a person can live, there one can also live well; life is also in the demands of court, there too one can live well.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 5.16 Ni siku mpya, siku bora na ya kipekee sana kwetu. Tumeipata nafasi nyingine nzuri sana kwetu kwenda kuweka juhudi kubwa ili (more…)
“Apply yourself to thinking through difficulties—hard times can be softened, tight squeezes widened, and heavy loads made lighter for those who can apply the right pressure.” —SENECA, ON TRANQUILITY OF MIND, 10.4b Hongera sana mwanamafanikio kwa siku hii nyingine nzuri sana ya leo. Ni nafasi bora na ya kipekee sana (more…)
“Silence is a lesson learned from the many sufferings of life.” —SENECA, THYESTES, 309 Shukrani ndiyo kitu pekee tunachoweza kutoa kwa nafasi hii nzuri tuliyoiona leo. Siyo kwa akili zetu, wala nguvu zetu, bali ni kwa bahati tu. Kuhakikisha tunaitumia vizuri nafasi hii ya leo, nafasi ambayo wapo wengine wangekuwa (more…)
“You must stop blaming God, and not blame any person. You must completely control your desire and shift your avoidance to what lies within your reasoned choice. You must no longer feel anger, resentment, envy, or regret.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.22.13 Hongera sana mwanamafanikio kwa siku hii nyingine nzuri sana ya (more…)
“At this moment you aren’t on a journey, but wandering about, being driven from place to place, even though what you seek—to live well—is found in all places. Is there any place more full of confusion than the Forum? Yet even there you can live at peace, if needed.” —SENECA, (more…)
“Indeed, how could exile be an obstacle to a person’s own cultivation, or to attaining virtue when no one has ever been cut off from learning or practicing what is needed by exile?” —MUSONIUS RUFUS, LECTURES, 9.37.30–31, 9.39.1 Kuiona siku nyingine mpya na nzuri kama ya leo ni jambo la (more…)