Blackmoor Vituperative

Life is too short to obsess over pennies.
Life is too short to hold grudges.
Life is too short to pay to store things that you don’t use.
Life is too short to anguish over things you can’t change.
Life is too short to demand repayment for ancient debts.

Life is too short to spend it focused on that which is not important.

P.S. While looking for an image of an hourglass, I found this…

Caretake this Moment

Caretake this moment.
Immerse yourself in its particulars.
Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed.

Quit the evasions.
Stop giving yourself needless trouble.
It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.
You are not some disinterested bystander.
Exert yourself.

Respect your partnership with providence.
Ask yourself often, How may I perform this particular deed
such that it would be consistent with and acceptable to the divine will?
Heed the answer and get to work.

When your doors are shut and your room is dark you are not alone.
The will of nature is within you as your natural genius is within.
Listen to its importunings.
Follow its directives.

As concerns the art of living, the material is your own life.
No great thing is created suddenly.
There must be time.

Give your best and always be kind.

~ Epictetus