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“We are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it…. Life is long if you know how to use it. —Seneca, “On the Shortness of Life”
― Things That Matter: Overcoming Distraction to Pursue a More Meaningful Life
― Things That Matter: Overcoming Distraction to Pursue a More Meaningful Life
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing. So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it…. Life is long if you know how to use it.”
― Things That Matter: Overcoming Distraction to Pursue a More Meaningful Life
― Things That Matter: Overcoming Distraction to Pursue a More Meaningful Life
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