CARPE DIEM
“Let us therefore set out whole-heartedly, leaving aside our many distractions and exert ourselves
in this single purpose, before we realize too late the swift and unstoppable flight of time and are
left behind. As each day arises, welcome it as the very best day of all, and make it your own
possession. We must seize what flees.”
—SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 108.27b–28a
ou will only get one shot at today. You have only twenty-four hours with which to take it. And then it
is gone and lost forever. Will you fully inhabit all of today? Will you call out, “I’ve got this,” and do
your very best to be your very best?
What will you manage to make of today before it slips from your fingers and becomes the past? When
someone asks you what you did yesterday, do you really want the answer to be “nothing”?
-from The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday
I have been making more of my days recently and want this to become a key lesson I strive to bring to my everyday life.
'". . freedom isn’t secured by filling up on your heart’s desire but by removing your desire.”
—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 4.1.175
here are two ways to be wealthy—to get everything you want or to want everything you have. Which
is easier right here and right now? The same goes for freedom. If you chafe and fight and struggle for
more, you will never be free. If you could find and focus on the pockets of freedom you already have?
Well, then you’d be free right here, right now.'
-The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday
Everyday I write down what I am grateful for and it has helped me become a happier person...
My Hermetic tarot deck is by far the most affordable and best help that I've had from anyone or anything.... It should be sad, but what's cooler than getting your best advice from something always available and open/honest with you?
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