By contemplating the impermanence of everything in the world, we are forced to recognize that every time we do something could be the last time we do it, and this recognition can invest the things we do with a significance and intensity that would otherwise be absent. We will no longer sleepwalk through our life.


A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy (ed. Oxford University Press, 2008) - ISBN: 9780199792627

William Braxton Irvine Quotes

By contemplating the impermanence of everything in the world, we are forced to recognize that every time we do something could be the last time we do ...

By contemplating the impermanence of everything in the world, we are forced to recognize that every time we do something could be the last time we do ...

By contemplating the impermanence of everything in the world, we are forced to recognize that every time we do something could be the last time we do ...

By contemplating the impermanence of everything in the world, we are forced to recognize that every time we do something could be the last time we do ...