The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Henry David ThoreauRead
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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.
My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.
I think the only reason you visit an Apple store is because you wonder what life is like on another planet.
Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.
I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between.
Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
The quality of your life is a function of who you go through life with.
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
Life is a vast, unknowable movement of wholeness with no one separate from it and nothing outside of it.
Activity is not achievement. It is not enough to rush about beginning a lot of things and keeping busy. A well-spent life is one that rounds out what it has begun.
Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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