None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David ThoreauRead
Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.
Interpretation
Embrace each moment with gratitude and acceptance.
This quote encourages us to appreciate every single hour of our lives, regardless of the challenges they present. Thoreau emphasizes the importance of gratitude and acceptance in making our experiences meaningful and respectable.
In practice
Sharing the quote during a mindfulness workshop.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.
That grand old poem called Winter
Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?
'Let the Great World Spin' at the end talks a lot about connections and light and possibility and the fact that the world doesn't end. Even in the darkest times, we have to go on.
However tight things are, you still need to have the big picture at the forefront of your mind.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
The best of modern therapy is much like a process of shared meditation, where therapist and client sit together, learning to pay close attention to those aspects and dimensions of the self that the client may be unable to touch on his or her own.
Age considers; youth ventures.
Were it not for the shepherds, there would have been no reception. And were it not for a group of stargazers, there would have been no gifts.
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