November 15th Reading from The Daily Stoic (Round 2) - "Everything Is Change"

"Meditate often on the swiftness with which all that exists and is coming into being is swept away by us and carried away. For substance is like a river's unending flow, its activities continually changing and causes infinitely shifting so that almost nothing at all stands still."
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 5.23

Sounds very much like Heraclitus, right?

November 14th Reading from The Daily Stoic (Round 2) - "You Choose the Outcome"

"He was sent to prison. But the observation 'he has suffered evil,' is an addition that comes from you."
~ Epictetus, Discourses, 3.8.5b-6a

Many Stoics use being incarcerated as an example of an indifferent event perceived to be a great evil, but it has weight coming from Epictetus, who actually was a prisoner, I believe.

November 13th Reading from The Daily Stoic (Round 2) - "Never Complain, Never Explain"

"Don't allow yourself to be heard any longer griping about public life, not even with your own ears!"
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 8.9

November 12th Reading from The Daily Stoic (Round 2) - "The Strong Accept Responsibility"

"If we judge as good and evil only those things in the power of our own choice, then there is no room left for blaming gods or being hostile to others."
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 6.41

November 6th Reading from The Daily Stoic (Round 2) - "Someone Else Is Spinning The Thread"

"If the breaking day sees someone proud,
The ending day sees them brought low.
No one should put too much trust in triumph,
No one should give up hope of trials improving.
Clotho mixes one with the other and stops
Fortune from resting, spinning every fate around.
No one has had so much divine favor
That they could guarantee themselves tomorrow.
God keeps our lives hurtling on,
Spinning in a whirlwind."
~ Seneca, Thyestes, 613

November 5th Reading from The Daily Stoic (Round 2) - "A Higher Power"

"This is the very thing that makes up the virtue of the happy person and a well-flowing life - when the affairs of life are in every way tuned to the harmony between the individual divine spirit and the will of the director of the universe."
~ Chrysippus, quoted by Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, 7.1.88

November 4th Reading from The Daily Stoic (Round 2) - "Not Good, Nor Bad"

"There is no evil in things changing, just as there is no good in persisting in a new state."
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 4.42