“Don’t you know life is like a military campaign? One must serve on watch, another in reconnaissance, another on the front line… So it is for us—each person’s life is a kind of battle, and a long and varied one too. You must keep watch like a soldier and do everything commanded… You have been stationed in a key post, not some lowly place, and not for a short time but for life.”
— Epictetus, Discourses, 3.24.31–36
This is about standing your ground. To dare to take that path of most resistance, to take that fear head-on. Because you know it will make you stronger.
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