Some Tenets of Passionate Stoicism

• The ends need not justify the means as the means are a end in themselves.
• Even without tangible results the pursuit of excellence is always and excellent pursuit.
• You are likely to find yourself while seeking to advance a lost cause.
• Impossible goals promote extraordinary efforts and improbable results.
• Hope for the best. Plan for the worst. Expect to be surprised.
• Trying to hold back the tide is an exercise which enhances physical endurance and emotional patience.
• Learn to be brought low. Learn to abound. The rest of life is only a matter of degrees.
• Every task undertaking with true passion bears fruit in the joy of that passion if in no other way. Passion is its own reward.
• A dispassionate life in unenjoyable in the same way an unexamined life is unlivable.
• Striving to improve a situation does not entail becoming discontent within it.
• Passion properly tempered by self-control will always be noble, never wanton.
• No external constraint can effectively contain and passion, noble or otherwise, only self-control can do so.
• Self-control is an acquired taste. It is not a constraint but rather a protection.
• Learn to practice impractical pragmatism
• Introspection only increases enlightenment to the extent that it prompts action.