On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (Penguin Great Ideas)
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (Penguin Great Ideas) by Seneca, C.D.N. Costa
Deep and inward-looking; a moderate read.
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Insights from On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (Penguin Great Ideas)
“It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it.”
Life feels short because we spend most of it on things that don't matter. We treat our time like it is infinite until we suddenly run out.
“How late it is to begin really to live just when life must end!”
Planning for a long retirement in your old age is a massive gamble. There is no guarantee we will even make it to fifty or sixty.
“No one restores your years, no one returns you to yourself.”
People are incredibly stingy with their money but give their time away to anyone who asks. Time is the only thing we can never get back.
“The man who is preoccupied has time for nothing less than living.”
Being busy is often just a way to avoid looking at our own lives. We fill our schedules so we don't have to face who we are.
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- ISBN
- 9780143036326
- Language
- EN
Quotes by Seneca
More →Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Letters to Lucilius
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Letters to Lucilius
