It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it.

Life is long enough, and it’s been given to us in generous measure for accomplishing the greatest things, if the whole of it is well invested.

But when life is squandered through soft and careless living, and when it’s spent on no worthwhile pursuit, death finally presses and we realize that the life which we didn’t notice passing has passed away.

-Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger-

Men are thrifty in guarding their private property, but as soon as it comes to wasting time, they are most extravagant with the one commodity for which it’s respectable to be greedy. -Seneca-

As one addict put it, addiction is when we’ve “lost the freedom to abstain.” Let us reclaim that freedom. -Ryan Holiday-

If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is as thread. You must practice constantly.

-Miyamoto Mushashi-