Podcast: The Daily Stoic
Episode: Karen Duffy on Using Stoicism to Find Happiness (Even with Chronic Illness)
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
Epictetus
Buy on Amazon"At the beginning of 'Meditations,' where Marcus thanks all his teachers and specifically Rusticus for lending him his copy of Epictetus from his library, you realize that 20 centuries ago, someone gave this man a book, and a light went on for him—the switch flipped, just as it did for you and for me."
The Discourses of Epictetus
Buy on Amazon"Or Epictetus—it feels like he’s calling you out instead of whoever it was in the lecture hall that he’s speaking to in Discourses."
The Great Gatsby
Buy on Amazon"You have a letter where your son writes to you, and he mentions, 'Remember little Pammy in The Great Gatsby? Neither did her mother, Daisy Buchanan.'"