On the Shortness of Life (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 ... organizes every day as though it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the next day... Nothing can be taken from this life, and you can only add to it as if giving to a man who is already full and satisfied food which... See more
Maria Popova • The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long
Seneca said in On the Shortness of Life, ‘It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much.’