Helen O'connor

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Seneca
“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what is in Fortune's control and abandoning what lies in yours.”
Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

Neel Burton
“Man is mostly a collection of emotions, most of which he would do better not to be feeling.”
Neel Burton

Marcus Aurelius
“Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Seneca
“It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the one who hankers after more.”
Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

David  Mitchell
“These...xistential qualms you suffer, they just mean you're truly human. I aked how I might remedy them. "You don´t remedy them. You live thru them.”
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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