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A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus on Our Search for Meaning and Why Happiness Is Our Moral Obligation
Why “the demand for happiness and the patient quest for it” isn’t a luxury or a mere need but our existential duty.
Favorite Children’s Books of 2019
An emotional intelligence primer in the form of a tender illustrated poem, an empowered retelling of Cinderella, a meditation on what it means to have enough, a serenade to the art of listening as the gateway to self-understanding, and more.
Seneca on Gratitude and What It Really Means to Be a Generous Human Being
“I am grateful, not in order that my neighbour, provoked by the earlier act of kindness, may be more ready to benefit me, but simply in order that I may perform a most pleasant and beautiful act.”
Marcus Aurelius on Mortality and the Key to Living Fully
“The only thing that isn’t worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly. And be patient with those who don’t.”
Marcus Aurelius on How to Begin Each Day: The Stoic Recipe for Unassailable Sanity and Inner Peace
A perspective-shifting lens for your exasperating daily interactions with unpleasant people.
Georgia O’Keeffe on Art, Life, and Setting Priorities
“Anyone with any degree of mental toughness ought to be able to exist without the things they like most for a few months at least.”
The Stoic Key to Living with Presence: Seneca on Time Spent vs. Saved vs. Wasted
“Lay hold of to-day’s task, and you will not need to depend so much upon to-morrow’s. While we are postponing, life speeds by. Nothing… is ours, except time.”
The Psychology of Time and How the Interplay of Spontaneity and Self-Control Mediates Our Capacity for Presence
“Consciousness is tied to corporeality and temporality: I experience myself as existing with a body over time.”
The Great French Artist Eugène Delacroix on Self-Doubt, Idea-Ambivalence, and the Cure for Procrastination
“I must never put off for a better day something that I could enjoy doing now.”
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