“Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.” This profound quote from Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations captures the urgency and depth of his philosophical reflections. Written as a series of personal notes during[…]Continue Reading
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Strength despite Struggle: The Enduring Wisdom of Rudyard Kipling’s “If—”
The tragedy of a poem, sage words from a father to his young son, only for the son’s life to be cut short by the horrors of war. Thrown into grief, and forced to rely on the wisdom he had hoped to instill in his boy, the author came to see that not all was[…]Continue Reading
