December 7, 2017July 1, 2019lizziefortinLeave a Comment on The Cards We’re Dealt: instead of denying our fear of death, let’s let it make us the best people we can be. Today. The Cards We’re Dealt: instead of denying our fear of death, let’s let it make us the best people we can be. Today.
December 6, 2017July 1, 2019lizziefortinLeave a Comment on The Sword Dangles Over You: “don’t behave as if you are destined to live forever. What’s fated hangs over you. As long as you live and while you can, become good now.” The Sword Dangles Over You: “don’t behave as if you are destined to live forever. What’s fated hangs over you. As long as you live and while you can, become good now.”
December 5, 2017July 1, 2019lizziefortinLeave a Comment on The Benefits of Sobering Thoughts: “keep death and exile before your eyes each day, along with everything that seems terrible – by doing so, you’ll never have a base thought nor will you have excessive desire.” The Benefits of Sobering Thoughts: “keep death and exile before your eyes each day, along with everything that seems terrible – by doing so, you’ll never have a base thought nor will you have excessive desire.”
December 4, 2017July 1, 2019lizziefortinLeave a Comment on You Don’t Own That: so what do we own? Just our lives – and not for too long. You Don’t Own That: so what do we own? Just our lives – and not for too long.
December 3, 2017July 1, 2019lizziefortinLeave a Comment on The Philosopher as an Artisan Of Life and Death: we are trying to do this difficult thing – living and dying – as well as we can. And to do that, we must remember what we’ve learned and the wise words we’ve been given. The Philosopher as an Artisan Of Life and Death: we are trying to do this difficult thing – living and dying – as well as we can. And to do that, we must remember what we’ve learned and the wise words we’ve been given.
December 2, 2017July 1, 2019lizziefortinLeave a Comment on Don’t Mind Me, I’m Only Dying Slow: “Let Each Thing you would do, say or intend be like that of a dying person.” Don’t Mind Me, I’m Only Dying Slow: “Let Each Thing you would do, say or intend be like that of a dying person.”
December 1, 2017July 1, 2019lizziefortinLeave a Comment on Pretend Today is the End: “let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life’s books each day… the one who puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short on time.” Pretend Today is the End: “let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life’s books each day… the one who puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short on time.”
November 30, 2017July 1, 2019lizziefortinLeave a Comment on Follow the Reason: “the person who follows reason in all things will have both leisure and a readiness to act – they are both cheerful and self-composed.” Follow the Reason: “the person who follows reason in all things will have both leisure and a readiness to act – they are both cheerful and self-composed.”
November 29, 2017July 1, 2019lizziefortinLeave a Comment on You’re Going to be Ok: “don’t lament this and don’t get agitated.” You’re Going to be Ok: “don’t lament this and don’t get agitated.”
November 25, 2017July 1, 2019lizziefortinLeave a Comment on Funny How That Works Out: “as for me, I would choose being sick over living in luxury, for being sick only harms the body, whereas luxury destroys both the body and the soul, causing weakness and incapacity in the body, and lack of control and cowardice in the soul. What’s more, luxury breeds injustice because it also breeds greediness.” Funny How That Works Out: “as for me, I would choose being sick over living in luxury, for being sick only harms the body, whereas luxury destroys both the body and the soul, causing weakness and incapacity in the body, and lack of control and cowardice in the soul. What’s more, luxury breeds injustice because it also breeds greediness.”
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