Seneca: True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious depe…

Today’s Stoic

“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”

Seneca · Letters from a Stoic

What it means today

Happiness is spoiled when it is always deferred to a future that never quite arrives. Enjoy what is here now, and let the future come without leaning your peace on it.

Try this todaySpend a few minutes fully enjoying something you usually rush through.

Today’s questionAm I enjoying now, or only planning to be happy later?

#happiness #presence #contentment

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