July 29, 2017July 1, 2019lizziefortinLeave a Comment on A Cure for the Self: don’t you deserve to flourish? Wouldn’t you like to be great of soul, filled with confidence, and invincible to external events? Wouldn’t you like to be like the proverbial onion, packed with layers of greatness? A Cure for the Self: don’t you deserve to flourish? Wouldn’t you like to be great of soul, filled with confidence, and invincible to external events? Wouldn’t you like to be like the proverbial onion, packed with layers of greatness?
July 28, 2017July 1, 2019lizziefortinLeave a Comment on Check Your Privilege: it is our duty to understand and be patient with others. Check Your Privilege: it is our duty to understand and be patient with others.
July 27, 2017July 1, 2019lizziefortinLeave a Comment on Where is anything better? Virtue is the one good that reveals itself to be more than we expect and something that once cannot have in degrees. Where is anything better? Virtue is the one good that reveals itself to be more than we expect and something that once cannot have in degrees.
July 26, 2017July 1, 2019lizziefortinLeave a Comment on When Good Men Do Nothing: “Often injustice lies in what you aren’t doing, not only on what you are doing.” When Good Men Do Nothing: “Often injustice lies in what you aren’t doing, not only on what you are doing.”
July 25, 2017July 1, 2019lizziefortinLeave a Comment on What’s On Your Tombstone? Sometimes our professional commitments can become an end unto themselves. What’s On Your Tombstone? Sometimes our professional commitments can become an end unto themselves.
July 24, 2017July 1, 2019lizziefortinLeave a Comment on Somewhere Someone’s Dying: if emoting is the end of your participation, then you ought to get back to your own individual duty. Somewhere Someone’s Dying: if emoting is the end of your participation, then you ought to get back to your own individual duty.
July 23, 2017July 1, 2019lizziefortinLeave a Comment on Receive Honors and Slights Exactly the Same Way: “Receive without pride, let go without attachment.” Receive Honors and Slights Exactly the Same Way: “Receive without pride, let go without attachment.”
July 21, 2017July 1, 2019lizziefortinLeave a Comment on Made For Working Together: “whenever you have trouble getting up in the morning, remind yourself that you’ve been made by nature for the purpose of working with others, whereas even unthinking animals share sleeping.” Made For Working Together: “whenever you have trouble getting up in the morning, remind yourself that you’ve been made by nature for the purpose of working with others, whereas even unthinking animals share sleeping.”
July 20, 2017July 1, 2019lizziefortinLeave a Comment on Made For Justice: “The unjust person acts against the gods. For insofar as the nature of the universe made rational creatures for the sake of each other, with an eye toward mutual benefit based on true value and never for harm, anyone breaking natures will obviously acts against the oldest of gods.” Made For Justice: “The unjust person acts against the gods. For insofar as the nature of the universe made rational creatures for the sake of each other, with an eye toward mutual benefit based on true value and never for harm, anyone breaking natures will obviously acts against the oldest of gods.”