This Timeless Adage Will Determine Your Destiny | Respect The Past, But Be Open To The Future

<p>This is not another note about&nbsp;<a href="https://store.dailystoic.com/products/memento-mori-premium-signet-ring" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">memento mori</a>.</p><p>It’s about a different immutable, inescapable law of human existence that comes to us from the Stoics through Heraclitus (one of&nbsp;Marcus Aurelius’&nbsp;favorites): Character is fate.</p><p>---</p><p>And in today's excerpt from <em>The Daily Stoic</em>, Ryan explains why the Stoics believed it was so important to honor the past, but not to live in it.</p><p>✉️ Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: <a href="http://dailystoic.com/dailyemail" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail</a></p><p>🏛 Check out the <a href="https://store.dailystoic.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Daily Stoic Store</a> for Stoic inspired products, signed books, and more.</p><p>📱 Follow us: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/dailystoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/dailystoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">YouTube</a>, <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@daily_stoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TikTok</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dailystoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook</a></p><p>See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.</p>