On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas)
Everyone hustles his life along, and is troubled by a longing for the future and weariness of the present. But the man who spends all his time on his own needs, who organizes every day as though it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the next day. For what new pleasures can any hour now bring him? He has tried everything, and enjoyed everyth
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On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (Penguin Great Ideas)
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Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches today to save nine tomorrow.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
While we are postponing, life speeds by.