Dear reader,
This is a short and sweet post.
I would simply like to say “thank you” for your support and presence over the past year.
There were ups.
There were downs.
There was change.
There were lessons.
I am grateful that you’ve joined me on this journey, and I hope that we continue to learn and grow together.
May you have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday with family or friends, and I wish you a healthy end to the year.
I will leave you with a few Stoic quotes on gratitude:
“Remember to conduct yourself in life as if at a banquet. As something being passed around comes to you, reach out your hand and take a moderate helping. Does it pass you by? Don’t stop it. It hasn’t yet come? Don’t burn in desire for it, but wait until it arrives in front of you. Act this way with children, a spouse, toward position, with wealth—one day it will make you worthy of a banquet with the gods.”
- Epictetus, Enchiridion, 15
“All you need are these: certainty of judgment in the present moment; action for the common good in the present moment; and an attitude of gratitude in the present moment for anything that comes your way.”
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 9.6
“It’s in keeping with Nature to show our friends affection and to celebrate their advancement, as if it were our very own. For if we don’t do this, virtue, which is strengthened only by exercising our perceptions, will no longer endure in us.”
- Seneca, Moral Letters, 109.15
“Pass through this brief patch of time in harmony with nature, and come to your final resting place gracefully, just as a ripened olive might drop, praising the earth that nourished it and grateful to the tree that gave it growth.”
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 4.48.2