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Life Is Not Short | DKB Show
“Show me that the good life doesn’t consist in its length, but in its use, and that it is possible—no, entirely too common—for a person who has had a long life to have lived too little.”
Stephen Hanselman • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
wrinkles: he has not lived long, just existed long.
Seneca • On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (Penguin Great Ideas)
Everyone hustles his life along, and is troubled by a longing for the future and weariness of the present. But the man who spends all his time on his own needs, who organizes every day as though it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the next day. For what new pleasures can any hour now bring him? He has tried everything, and enjoyed everyth
... See moreSeneca • On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (Penguin Great Ideas)
What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily? For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed. Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands.