Life

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.”

-Henry Ford

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“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”

-Harriet Beecher Stowe

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“The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet live very little.”

-Michel de Montaigne

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“An organism’s life is its standard of value: that which furthers its life is the good, that which threatens it is the evil.”

-Ayn Rand

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“There is no wealth but Life.”

-John Ruskin

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“The first wealth is health.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“To make the best use of free time, one needs to devote as much ingenuity and attention to it as one would to one’s job. Active leisure that helps a person grow does not come easy. In the past leisure was justified because it gave people an opportunity to experiment and to develop skills. In fact, before science and the arts became professionalized, a great deal of scientific research, poetry, painting, and musical composition was carried out in a person’s free time. Gregory Mendel did his famous genetic experiments as a hobby; Benjamin Franklin was led by interest, not a job description, to grind lenses and experiment with lightening rods; Emily Dickinson wrote her superb poetry to create order in her own life. Nowadays only experts are supposed to be interested in such issues; amateurs are derided for venturing into fields reserved for the specialist. But amateurs—those who do something because they love to do it—add enjoyment and interest to their own life, and to everybody else’s.”

-Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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