living

75 posts

1. Alan Watts – “Music and Life” October 6, 2018
2. We’re Building the Ship as We Sail It March 22, 2018
3. When to Share January 22, 2018
4. Give your past, present, and future selves influence in proportion January 7, 2015
5. When you’re younger, you need to say yes to everything July 11, 2014
6. Life is a game. This is your strategy guide February 23, 2014
7. Learning to Measure Time in Love and Loss January 20, 2014
8. Each of us is born with a series of built-in confusions August 2, 2013
9. Memento mori - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia June 3, 2013
10. It is not the young man who is most happy May 14, 2013
11. No Country for Old Men (2007) - “I feel overmatched” May 6, 2013
12. If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy April 1, 2013
13. Our unlived lives are often more important than our lived ones February 28, 2013
14. Get out of the conceptual rut of what a good life looks like November 15, 2012
15. Why does the return journey feel quicker? - The Irish Times August 23, 2012
16. Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart July 15, 2012
17. Life is an extended dialogue with your future self June 25, 2012
18. The Service Patch - NYTimes.com June 17, 2012
19. The question arose as to what we would do differently if we were immortal May 22, 2012
20. 10 Things Your Commencement Speaker Won't Tell You April 29, 2012
21. Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over April 25, 2012
22. Millions long for immortality April 23, 2012
23. Stephen Wolfram Blog: The Personal Analytics of My Life March 9, 2012
24. Don’t be dour about it February 2, 2012
25. Do your work for six years; in the seventh, go into solitude January 23, 2012
26. They cannot admire you for intellect December 6, 2011
27. Missing the Point | RyanHoliday.net December 5, 2011
28. No more roundabout discussion of what makes a good man November 26, 2011
29. For if he shall begin to fall into dotage, perspiration and nutrition… November 18, 2011
30. Hypomnema - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia November 14, 2011
31. Man's Search for Meaning October 21, 2011
32. A man’s suffering is similar to the behavior of gas October 12, 2011
33. Passion Buys What It Craves with Its Life September 12, 2011
34. Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day… August 29, 2011
35. Whatever moral rules you have deliberately proposed to yourself, abide by them… August 22, 2011
36. The Enchiridion by Epictetus - The Internet Classics Archive August 22, 2011
37. The medium chill | Grist August 4, 2011
38. 4 Reasons traveling is a waste of time | Penelope Trunk July 11, 2011
39. Life will follow the path it started upon, and will neither reverse nor check… June 21, 2011
40. Heaven knows! June 7, 2011
41. No, no, there is no going back June 2, 2011
42. Look back in memory and consider when you ever had a fixed plan, how few days… June 1, 2011
43. — A. E. Housman May 30, 2011
44. Self-Direction « RyanHoliday.net May 26, 2011
45. You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you… May 12, 2011
46. We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it April 29, 2011
47. THE NEW YORKER: Barry Michels’s & Phil Stutz’ Therapy Drawings April 21, 2011
48. A man who lives among immortal blessings is not like to a mortal being April 8, 2011
49. 40 Things I Learned in My First 40 Years - Bryan Caplan | EconLog April 8, 2011
50. People just wait for you to grow up and do the right thing April 1, 2011
51. When I was younger I developed what I called the Baseball Theory of life March 2, 2011
52. Sydney Smith’s Prescriptions for Low Spirits February 25, 2011
53. Abandon resolutions. Stop looking for a soulmate. Reject positive thinking | Science | The Guardian January 15, 2011
54. Besides, I am destined to perish, definitively, and only some instant… January 15, 2011
55. Abandon resolutions. Stop looking for a soulmate. Reject positive thinking | Science | The Guardian January 15, 2011
56. Besides, I am destined to perish, definitively, and only some instant… January 15, 2011
57. Life gets a lot easier when you give up being outwardly sad about anything January 6, 2011
58. Life gets a lot easier when you give up being outwardly sad about anything January 6, 2011
59. Your ancestors set up those trophies, not that you may gaze at them in wonder… December 8, 2010
60. The difference between potential and output comes from human qualities November 29, 2010
61. I bet we all in this room live about the same November 21, 2010
62. Hang around people who are better than you all the time November 17, 2010
63. In which I ponder former selves November 4, 2010
64. No Dinner Invitations? October 14, 2010
65. A Cruel Country by Roland Barthes : The New Yorker September 9, 2010
66. Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium… September 2, 2010
67. Beware the barrenness of a busy life August 26, 2010
68. “You Want a Social Life, With Friends” by Kenneth Koch August 26, 2010
69. Family, Friends, Health, Work: Pick Any Three July 22, 2010
70. Be true to yourself June 6, 2010
71. Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing May 12, 2010
72. College and the Art of Life - David Salesin, Convocation Address, 28 September 2003 May 4, 2010
73. Seth's blog: Optimal Daily Experience May 4, 2010
74. Connecting some threads: a well-balanced life May 4, 2010
75. The relative relativity of material and experiential purchases January 9, 2010