That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
SE SenecaStoic philosopher · 4 BCE–65 CEWat dit citaat betekent
Treating each day as a complete life makes the present feel whole rather than provisional. It is a cure for postponement: begin living now, fully, instead of waiting for some later start.
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Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman whose letters offer durable advice on time, fortune, and the good life.
This line is among the quotes by Seneca that readers return to on kalmte, drawn from Letters to Lucilius — a small, portable reminder to carry into the morning.
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.