Life
Time, meaning, and how to spend a single one
Your grandmother had a drawer of things she was saving for a good occasion. The occasion never came. The things are still in the drawer.
This room is about that drawer. Time, and all the things we do instead of spending it.
You have a note on your phone with the idea in it. You know the one. It has been there for eleven months. Every few weeks you open it, read it, feel the little jolt, and close it again, because you are not ready yet. Here is what nobody told you about the people who did the thing: they were not ready either. They had a worse plan than yours and shakier hands. Some of them started on a Tuesday because they were bored and it got out of hand. Ready is not a feeling you get before. It is something you notice afterwards, looking back, slightly surprised. The only way to become the person who could do it is to be the person who did it badly first. The note is still open. Do one line of it.
One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Don't ignore your dreams; don't work too much; say what you think; cultivate friendships; be happy.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what's left and live it properly.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
We are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.