Phill

• People will be difficult today. Meet it without becoming it
• You're going to die. Let that sort what actually matters
• Do the work in front of you. Comfort was never the point

You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

• What moves you isn't survival or comfort. It's the drive to grow, to master, to overcome
• If you had to live this exact life again, forever, would you take it?
• You inherited your values without choosing them. Now choose

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

• Whatever you're certain of, expect to defend it
• You don't know. Start there
• Follow the argument wherever it goes, especially when you don't like where it lands

The unexamined life is not worth living.

• See people as they are, not as you'd like them to be
• Half of strength is what people believe about you
• Luck decides a lot. Skill decides what you do with it

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

• All warfare is deception. Look like what you're not
• Know the ground and know yourself. The rest follows
• Walk away from the fight you can't win

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

• You become what you practice, not what you intend
• How you treat people is the whole of it
• Keep the forms. Ritual isn't empty. It's the shape a relationship holds

It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.

• You want meaning. The world won't give you any
• The answer isn't despair. Live anyway, fully
• Push the rock knowing it rolls back. Do it anyway

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

• You're on trial and no one will tell you the charge
• You'll never reach the center. There's no one to appeal to
• You wake up a stranger in your own life

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

• You want two opposite things at once. Both are real
• Your doubt doesn't cancel your faith. They live together
• Suffering can deepen you or wreck you. Nothing makes it noble

The mystery of human existence lies not in staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

• Lament from the depths of the heart is itself a form of prayer
• Merciless honesty about one's own faults that never ends in despair
• No one is ever beyond grace

Speaking with God from the depths of the heart.