The Way

"The impediment to action advances action.  What stands in the way becomes the way."

-Marcus Aurelius

The Shortness of Life

"All that you see will quickly perish, and those who have been spectators of its dissolution will very soon perish, too.  And he who dies at the extremist old age will be brought into the same condition with him who died prematurely."

-Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book IX