"When will vacation come? Everyone hustles their life along, and is troubled by a longing for the future and weariness of the present. But the person who spends all of their time on their own needs, who organizes every day as though it were their last, neither longs for nor fears the next day."

- Seneca

"Finally, it is generally agreed that no activity can be successfully pursued by an individual who is preoccupied- since the mind when distracted absorbs nothing deeply, but rejects everything which is, so to speak, crammed into it."

- Seneca 

We need activities that we do for our own sake and for their own sake.

"If by chance they achieve some tranquility, just as a swell remains on the deep sea even after the wind has dropped, so they go on tossing about and never find rest from their desires."

- Seneca 

"Many pursue no fixed goal, but are tossed about in every changing designs by a fickleness which is shifting, inconstant and never satisfied with itself. Some have no aims for their life's course, but death takes them unawares as they yawn languidly- so much so that I cannot doubt the truth of that oracular remark of the greatest of poets 'It is a small part of life we really live."

- Seneca 

"Fasting"

"Fast from thoughts, fast: thoughts are like the lion and the wild ass; people's hearts are the thickets they haunt. Fasting is the first principle of health; restraint is superior to medication; scratching only aggravates the itch. Fast, and behold the strength of the spirit."

“People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.” 

- Seneca 

"...inertia recharges the mind."

- Rumi

"And of all your skills, and wealth and handicraft, weren't they first merely a thought and a quest?"

- Rumi

"How have you spent your life?"

- Rumi