“It is not that we have a brief length of time to live, but that we squander a great deal of that time. Life is sufficiently long, and has been granted with enough generosity for us to accomplish the greatest things, provided that in its entirety it is well invested; but when it is dissipated […]
When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has […]
Do you ever wonder if you’re too judgmental? Of others, of yourself, of everything? Sometimes it seems like we’re always only just observing the world in order to slap a big old label of good or bad on everything we fucking see. The Stoics would say most of what troubles us lies in these good/bad […]