“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.”
The Book of Ecclesiastes, 1611 · Ecclesiastes 3:1, King James Version
Chapter 3
On Starting Over
“Confine thyself to the present.”
Marcus Aurelius, c. 170 AD · Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher
“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”
Seneca, c. 65 AD · Roman Stoic philosopher, in a letter to his friend Lucilius
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
Epictetus, c. 108 AD · Stoic teacher, born enslaved
“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
Leo Tolstoy, 1877 · from Anna Karenina, translated by Constance Garnett
“Fall down seven times, get up eight.”
Japanese proverb · traditional
Traditional Japanese proverb
Looking back over their lives, people regret the things they did not do far more than the things they did.
A research finding, 1995 · Thomas Gilovich and Victoria Medvec, Cornell University
Happiness is a choice, not a condition.
The Silent and Greatest Generations, 2011 · a top lesson from more than 1,200 people interviewed in their seventies, eighties, and nineties
I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
The most common regret of the dying, 2011 · recorded over eight years by palliative care nurse Bronnie Ware
“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.”
Grandma Moses, 1952 · Anna Mary Robertson Moses, who began painting in her late seventies
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