Category: Speeches and quotes worth pondering

I became obsessed with the musical Hamilton when it was released on Disney+ a few months into the pandemic. Given the lockdown and all, I watched it to my heart’s content, surely annoying my husband...Read More →

I'm addicted to MasterClass.You know how cooking shows can be entertaining even if you're a terrible cook and you're never going to prepare anything they're showing?MasterClass lessons are sort of like...Read More →

Before you ask, “Who does this lady think she is to be preaching about right and wrong?” I’d like you to know I wrote these quotes down because they apply to ME. I've been guilty of all the wicked moral...Read More →

2,000+ year-old Roman philosopher by the name of Lucius Annaeus Seneca has been one of my closest companions during this time of quarantine The reason for this is that, thirty days ago, I took up a...Read More →

“Words need to be sown like seeds. No matter how tiny a seed may be, when it lands in the right sort of ground it unfolds its strength and from being minute expands and grows to a massive size… Yes,...Read More →

"The active man should be able to take things easily, while the man who is inclined towards repose should be capable of action.” Seneca the Younger, in Letters from a Stoic The Stoics, in general, were...Read More →

“There is a sequence about the creative process, and a work of genius is a synthesis of its individual features from which nothing can be subtracted without disaster.” Seneca the Younger, in Letters...Read More →

“You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to do good becomes a disposition to good.” Seneca the Younger, in Letters from a Stoic Everything all self-help gurus say seems to have...Read More →

“The outcome of violent anger is a mental raving, and therefore anger is to be avoided not for the sake of moderation but for the sake of sanity.” Seneca the Younger, in Letters from a Stoic Anger, it...Read More →

Seneca, like all Stoics, was obsessed with death. His writings are full of reflections on death: how to approach it, how to regard it, and, above all, how to use the awareness of it to help us lead our...Read More →