# Stillness Is the Key  ## Metadata - Author: [[Ryan Holiday]] - Full Title: Stillness Is the Key - Category: #books ## Highlights - To Seneca and to his fellow adherents of Stoic philosophy, if a person could develop peace within themselves—if they could achieve apatheia, as they called it—then the whole world could be at war, and they could still think well, work well, and be well. ([Location 109](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07MJ3TDCZ&location=109)) - To be steady while the world spins around you. To act without frenzy. To hear only what needs to be heard. To possess quietude—exterior and interior—on command. ([Location 122](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07MJ3TDCZ&location=122))