Oprah Winfrey discovered Stoicism through a novel. That fact alone is a testament to how the ancient philosophy travels—not through academic journals or university lecture halls, but through…
Maria Semple — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Maria Semple has appeared on 2 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including The Daily Stoic. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Maria said
“The low road will always dog you. The high road you can go to sleep feeling good about yourself. The low road, you might 10 years from now be walking down the street and going, 'Why did I have to be cutting to that person in that situation for no reason?'”
— Maria Semple
Episode appearances
2 Marcus Aurelius’s most famous line—“the impediment to action advances action; what stands in the way becomes the way”—was not written about battlefield reversals, financial collapse, or physical…
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