One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry
Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms (1911)
Topic
This collection gathers the long view — the shape of a life from beginning to end, the habits that form it, and the choices that define it. Einstein's bicycle metaphor is here, as are Confucius on work you love, Emerson on experiments, and Schopenhauer's blunt claim that the first forty years are the text and the next thirty the commentary. Morley, Channing, and Lincoln are unsentimental about what a life well-spent requires. The recurring theme is not longevity but quality: most of these writers had little patience for a long life poorly inhabited. Good for anyone thinking about direction rather than pace — what to do with what remains, or how to assess what has already been lived.
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me.
The powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
A life without investigation is not worth living.
All children, except one, grow up.
Men are but children of a larger growth.