You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Interpretation
Life is not about how long you live, but how richly you experience it.
This quote emphasizes the importance of quality over quantity in life. While we cannot control how long we live, we have the power to enrich our lives through meaningful experiences and personal growth, advocating for a life filled with depth and broad experiences rather than merely focusing on longevity.
In practice
This quote is a great reminder during a motivational speech at a personal development seminar.
I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they tell me that they can't recall learning anything of any value in school. All that schoolmasters managed to accomplish with them was to test and determine the amount of knowledge that they had already acquired independently-and not infrequently the determination was made clumsily and inaccurately.
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him
It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.
The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.
They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
When you look at food as an ethical issue in the Christian tradition, you don't find very much about it. You don't find, as you do in the Jewish or Islamic or Hindu traditions, a lot of restrictions saying you can eat this but you can't eat that.
Some people seem to believe that for each problem there is a solution readily available - a solution that can be promptly achieved by passing a law and voting some money. I think of this as the vending machine concept of social change. Put a coin in the machine and out comes a piece of candy. If there is a social problem, pass a law and out comes a solution.
God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually.
No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.
A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!
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