Make Beautiful Choices

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🗓️ 29 April 2019

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Epictetus says that “if your choices are beautiful, so too will you be.” It’s simple and it’s true. You are what your choices make you, nothing more and nothing less.

Today will present you with plenty of opportunities to choose between—to choose beauty or ugliness; kindness or selfishness; mercy or vengeance; serenity or anger.

There will be little choices—what you eat, how you talk to people, whether you pick up the television remote or a book, what you think about—and there will be bigger choices too: whether you stand up for what’s right, whether you reach down to help someone who needs it, what kind of work you do, what standards you hold yourself to.

It’s often easier to make the ugly, selfish, vengeful angry choice. To choose to give into your temper or to keep doing things the way you’ve always done them. Beautiful choices—like physical fitness or perfect skin—are rarely as effortless as they seem. No, there is a regimen behind them. It takes exercise, it takes discipline, it takes sacrifice.

But when you see the results? Well, it can take your breath away.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoke Podcast early and add free on Amazon music. Download the app today.
0:13.6	Welcome to the Daily Stoke. For each day, we read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength, insight, wisdom necessary for living good life.
0:23.3	Each one of these passages is based on the 2000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at DailyStoke.com.
0:37.3	Make beautiful choices.
0:39.3	Epic Teeta says, if your choices are beautiful, so too will you be. It's simple and it's true.
0:46.3	You are what your choices make you. Nothing more and nothing less.
0:51.3	Today we'll present you with plenty of opportunities to choose. To choose between beauty and ugliness, kindness or selfishness, mercy or vengeance, serenity or anger.
1:03.3	There will be little choices, what you eat, how you talk to people, whether you pick up the television remote or a book, what you think about.
1:11.3	And there will be bigger choices, too, whether you stand up for what's right, whether you reach down to help someone who needs it, kind of work you do, kind of standards you hold yourself to.
1:22.3	It's often easier to make the ugly, selfish, vengeful, angry choice. To choose to give into your temper or to keep doing things the way you've always done them.
1:34.3	Beautiful choices like physical fitness or perfect skin are rarely as effortless as they seem.
1:41.3	No, there is a regimen behind them. Takes exercise, takes discipline, takes sacrifice.
1:48.3	But when you see the results, well, it can take your breath away.
1:54.3	If you like the podcast that we do here and you want to get it via email every morning, you can sign up at dailystoic.com slash email.
2:05.3	Hey, prime members, you can listen to the daily stoic early and add free on Amazon music, download the Amazon music app today, or you can listen early and add free with Wondering Plus in Apple podcasts.

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