Sign in with Facebook
Brad Groux
https://www.twitter.com/bradgroux
During my first week with them, I spilled a garbage can in Margo’s room, the floor littered with paper cut-outs from the hole puncher. Ethan, who’d been standing in the doorway, came over without hesitation and helped clean up.
Remain humble and empathetic.
“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way”
―
―
“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
―
―
“My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching, and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application—not far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech—and learn them so well that words become works. No one to my mind lets humanity down quite so much as those who study philosophy as if it were a sort of commercial skill and then proceed to live in a quite different manner from the way they tell other people to live.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“Authority forgets a dying king”
―
―
“Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
Brad’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Brad’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Brad hasn't connected with his friends on Goodreads, yet.
Polls voted on by Brad
Lists liked by Brad
