Quotes: Seneca

"Leisure without learning is death."

–– Seneca (4 BC - AD 65), Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman 

Quotes: Katrine Engberg

"Why do we deal with death so poorly when it's the one inescapable condition we all have to face? Where do you put your grief once all the rituals associated with death are over and everyone is busy moving on?"

–– Katrine Engberg (b. 1975), Danish writer, actor, dancer, and choreographer 

Source: Katrine Engberg. The Harbor. Translated by Tara Chace. New York: Scout Press (Imprint of Simon and Schuster), 2019 (Translation 2021), p. 36. 

via: Commonplace Book, 2022, 2022 p. 52. 

Quotes: Dawna Markova

"I will not die an unlived life. 

I will not live in fear 

of falling or catching fire. 

I choose to inhabit my days, 

to allow my living to open me, 

to make me less afraid, 

more accessible; 

to loosen my heart 

until it becomes a wing, 

a torch, a promise. 

I choose to risk my significance, 

to live so that which came to me as seed 

goes to the next as blossom, 

and that which came to me as blossom, 

goes on as fruit." 

–– Dawna Markova, American author, teacher, psychotherapist 

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2019 g, 2019, p. 17.

Quotes: Marcus Aurelius

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."

–– Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD), Roman Emperor and Stoic Philosopher 

via Sketchbook 28, 2015, p. 9.