“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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Tag: live
Sigma Minus
“The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.”
— Josh Waitzkin, The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence
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Perspective
“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
— Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“…that served to time”
“…A tale begun in other days,
When summer suns were glowing –
A simple chime, that served to time
The rhythm of your rowing –
Whose echoes live in memory yet,
Though envious years would say “forget.”
(Lewis Carroll, “Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There”)
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October Fan
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
A Neverending Tale
“Some people have many tales. Sometimes they are linked into one big tale, sometimes they are utterly distinct. Most people do not have one at all.”
— Chris Wooding, “Poison”challenge look, way, road
Stay Present
“We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.”
— R. D. Laing
Choose to Live
“Choose to do more than just exist; choose to live.”
— Steve Maraboli, “Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience”
Contrariwise
“Each man lives in many worlds within different life.
Mind can only see world in which it lived and located.”
— Toba Beta, “My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut”
That First Step
“It’s all well and good to look back after the fact and see what we should have done, but we rarely know what path is best when we take that first step.”
— Christine Feehan, Oceans of Fire