Thadeus

“It is my sincere hope that this book, through a combination of informative text and useful exercises, will cultivate an effect similar to that of my friend’s near-death experience; that it will bring you a vivid and profound appreciation of your limited time on earth, and help you clarify your values and live a richer, fuller, and more authentic life.”
― Joanna Ebenstein, Memento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life

“Without knowing our priorities, we allow the pressures of life to determine our actions and decisions. An email comes in, and we respond. An enticing offer appears on our Facebook page, and we buy it. Someone interrupts our work flow, and we allow it. When we don’t know the bigger “why” of our lives, there are no rules, no boundaries, no priorities to help us.”
― S.J. Scott, Declutter Your Mind: How to Stop Worrying, Relieve Anxiety, and Eliminate Negative Thinking

“I never said a person was not in a hopeful way who did not thus fully discern the world’s vanity and the worth of his soul. But a man is truly in a very desperate way who does not wish, who does not try, to discern and feel all this.”
― John Henry Newman, Parochial and Plain Sermons

“It was excellent drill for their memories”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women