Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American writer and philosopher, known for Walden, an account of two years spent in a cabin by a pond in Massachusetts. His essay Civil Disobedience, written after he refused to pay a tax in protest against slavery and war, later influenced Gandhi and King.
About this theme: Life
Life is the broadest theme in any collection of quotations and therefore the most uneven. The same heading holds Seneca's letter on the shortness of time and a sentence from a greetings card. The difference usually comes down to whether a line asks something of the reader or flatters them.
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- The unexamined life is not worth living.— Socrates
- It is not the length of life, but the depth of life.— Ralph Waldo Emerson
- True life is lived when tiny changes occur.— Leo Tolstoy
- Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.— Marcus Aurelius
- To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.— Oscar Wilde