Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
SE SenecaStoic philosopher · 4 BCE–65 CEWat dit citaat betekent
Contentment lives in the present, not in some future you are anxiously waiting for. Enjoy now, and you stop postponing your own life.
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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 — a small, portable reminder to carry into the morning.
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